The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1947 - 300 páginas
"This book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. The specific works ... are: Donne's The Canonization, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso, Herrick's Corinna's going a-Maying, Pope's The rape of the lock, Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard, Wordsworth's Ode: intimations of immortality from Recollections of early childhood, Keat's Ode on a grecian urn, Tennyson's Tears, idle tears, Yeats's Among school children"--Cover.
 

Conteúdo

PREFACE
7
Cloak of Manliness
22
The Light Symbolism
50
What Does Poetry Communicate?
67
The Case of Miss Arabella Fermor
80
Grays Storied
105
Wordsworth and
124
The Motivation
167
Yeatss Great Rooted Blossomer
178
The Heresy of Paraphrase
192
APPENDIX 1
202
Criticism History and Critical Relativism
215
The Problem of Belief and
252
Texts of Poems
267
INDEX
297
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Cleanth Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky on October 16, 1906. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford universities. From 1932 to 1947, he taught English at Louisiana State University and then moved on to Yale University. At Yale, he helped to articulate the principles of New Criticism, which dominated literary studies in the 1940s and 1950s. He coedited the journal Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. He also wrote several titles in collaboration with Warren, including Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction. A third work Understanding Drama was written in collaboration with Robert Heilman. His other works included The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry and Modern Poetry and the Tradition. He died on May 10, 1994.

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