The Poet and His Audience

Klappentext A systematic exploration of the influence of readers on the shaping of six major poets' works. Zusammenfassung In this fascinating and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden! Pope! Byron! Shelley! Tennyson! and Yeats - and has traced the career of each to discover the nature and the extent of their readers' influence on their poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Dryden: servant to the King; 2. Pope: no man's slave; 3. Byron: too sincere a poet; 4. Shelley: the unacknowledged legislator; 5. Tennyson: Laureate to Victoria; 6. Yeats: always an Irish writer; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack, Jack Ian
• Verlag: External catalogues UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521278096
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27809-6
• Serie: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general