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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820641303321

Autore

Clausen Christopher <1942->

Titolo

The place of poetry : two centuries of an art in crisis / / Christopher Clausen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1981

©1981

ISBN

0-8131-8592-0

0-8131-6244-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Disciplina

821/.009

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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