Some Poets and Their Resources: The Future Agenda - Lawrence, Emerson, Heaney, Bishop, Muir, Thomas, Melville, Wilbur

In an unusual grouping of early and comtemporary twentieth-century poets with Emerson and Melville, this book explores imaginative resources for the poetry of the future. It brings out the testing of form by new phases of experience and the ability of poetry to transform experience by search for veracity in language.

About the author

^BLaurence Stapleton^B is Mary E. Garrett Professor Emeritus of English at Bryn Mawr College.

Summary

In an unusual grouping of early and comtemporary twentieth-century poets with Emerson and Melville, this book explores imaginative resources for the poetry of the future. It brings out the testing of form by new phases of experience and the ability of poetry to transform experience by search for veracity in language.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Stapleton, Stapleton Laurence
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.1995
• EAN: 9780819197917
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9791-7
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophy of Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets