The Poet's Defence
The Poet's Defence
Author:
J. Bronowski
Published:
May 2015
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ISBN:
9781107505353
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Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the reasons why English poets took an interest in criticism and how the role of poets as critics affected English criticism at large by taking Sidney, Dryden, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Swinburne, Housman and Yeats as his examples. This book will be of value to anyone with an in English literature and literary criticism.
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May 2015Paperback
9781107505353
266 pages
203 × 127 × 15 mm
0.29kg
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Sidney and Shelley: Philip Sidney
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Dryden
- Wordsworth and Coleridge: William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Swinburne and his Heirs: Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Alfred Edward Housman
- William Butler Yeats
- List of passages quoted
- Index.
