All-Sustaining Air - Romantic Legacies Renewals in British, American, Irish Poetry Since

Zusatztext a fine demonstration that literary criticism may itself acquire some of the virtues of poetry! and nowhere more compellingly than in its astonishing first chapter ... To read this book is to have one's preconceptions challenged on almost every page. ... It is a book that restores one's faith in literary criticism. Klappentext This impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. It shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues. Zusammenfassung This impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. It shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues.

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This impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. It shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues.

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• Authors: &apos, Michael Neill, O&apos, Michael O'Neill, Michael O''neill, Michael (Department of English O''neill, O'Neill Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199653058
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965305-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets