Poetry in a Divided World - The Clark Lectures 1985

List of contents

Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The function of poetry at the present time; 2. The nature and validity of poetic witness; 3. Isolation and community; 4. The international code of poetry; References.

Summary

This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Gifford
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.1986
• EAN: 9780521309448
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30944-8
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: African Studies Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies