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UNINA9910460953803321 |
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Clausen Christopher <1942-> |
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Titolo |
The place of poetry : two centuries of an art in crisis / / Christopher Clausen |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1981 |
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©1981 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-8592-0 |
0-8131-6244-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - History and criticism |
English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism |
English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature and society - English-speaking countries |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Rhyme or Reason; TWO: Poetry as Revelation; THREE: The Land of Lost Content; FOUR: The Palgrave Version; FIVE: New Bottles; SIX: Grecian Thoughts in the Home Fields; SEVEN: The Place of Poetry; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad audience, the audience began to dwindle toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the decline accel |
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