02941nam 2200649 450 991082064130332120200520144314.00-8131-8592-00-8131-6244-0(CKB)3710000000334549(EBL)1915753(SSID)ssj0001435626(PQKBManifestationID)11806050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001435626(PQKBWorkID)11435183(PQKB)10641290(OCoLC)558431724(MdBmJHUP)muse44270(Au-PeEL)EBL1915753(CaPaEBR)ebr11007474(CaONFJC)MIL691475(OCoLC)900344968(MiAaPQ)EBC1915753(EXLCZ)99371000000033454920150127h19811981 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe place of poetry two centuries of an art in crisis /Christopher ClausenLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1981.©19811 online resource (156 p.)Includes index.1-322-60193-3 0-8131-5170-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; YSince 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 accelAmerican poetryHistory and criticismEnglish poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEnglish-speaking countriesAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.Literature and society821/.009Clausen Christopher1942-1625205MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820641303321The place of poetry3960584UNINA