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Autore: |
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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Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1981 |
©1981 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.009 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The place of poetry ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8131-8592-0 |
0-8131-6244-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910460953803321 |
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