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Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994
The well wrought urn : studies in the structure of poetry / by Cleanth Brooks. - New York : Harcourt, 1975. - xiv, 300 p. ; 19 cm. - Harvest book ; HB-11 .
"A Harvest book." "HB-11." Includes index
The language of paradox -- The naked babe and the cloak of manliness -- The light symbolism in "L'allegro-il penseroso" -- What does poetry communicate? -- The case of Miss Arabella Fermor -- Gray's storied urn -- Wordsworth and the paradox of the imagination -- Keats's sylvan historian: history without footnotes -- The motivation of Tennyson's weeper -- Yeats's great rooted blossomer -- The heresy of paraphrase
"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
9780156957052 0156957051
English poetry--History and criticism
Poetry
Borowitz Collection
Poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung
Poetry.
PR502 / .B7 1947
821.04 / B873
The well wrought urn : studies in the structure of poetry / by Cleanth Brooks. - New York : Harcourt, 1975. - xiv, 300 p. ; 19 cm. - Harvest book ; HB-11 .
"A Harvest book." "HB-11." Includes index
The language of paradox -- The naked babe and the cloak of manliness -- The light symbolism in "L'allegro-il penseroso" -- What does poetry communicate? -- The case of Miss Arabella Fermor -- Gray's storied urn -- Wordsworth and the paradox of the imagination -- Keats's sylvan historian: history without footnotes -- The motivation of Tennyson's weeper -- Yeats's great rooted blossomer -- The heresy of paraphrase
"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
9780156957052 0156957051
English poetry--History and criticism
Poetry
Borowitz Collection
Poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung
Poetry.
PR502 / .B7 1947
821.04 / B873