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

• Autore: Clausen Christopher <1942->
• 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
• 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.: 9910787485003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II