The Well Wrought Urn - Studies in the Structure of Poetry

A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.

About the author

Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) was educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford universities. The Gray professor of rhetoric at Yale from 1947 to 1975, Brooks lectured and taught at many universities throughout his career. Additionally, he was co-editor, with Robert Penn Warren, of the Southern Review and the author of many books of criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Cleanth Brooks
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.1956
• EAN: 9780156957052
• ISBN: 978-0-15-695705-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Harvest Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Poetry, Italy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / German, POETRY: Haiku *, POETRY: European / German, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / French, POETRY: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY: European / Italian, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / Scandinavian, Poetry by form: Haiku, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / German