1st Edition
Revival: English Poetry: An unfinished history (1938) An unfinished history
By John Drinkwater
Copyright 1938
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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When a Poet writes poetry he can scarcely fail to interest. And the author of this posthumous volume was not only a poet but no mean critic too. As a result, his approach to English Poetry is not a work of merely casual interest: it is illuminating. No one could fail to be enriched and delighted by its discriminating enthusiasms, its happy quotations, and the no less happy judgements,... Read more
Chapter I Design
Chapter II The Nature and Function of Poetry
Chapter III Poetry and Prose
Chapter IV Reading Poetry
Chapter V As it was in the Beginning
Chapter VI Poetry and Narrative (1)
Chapter VII Poetry and Narrative (2)
Chpater VIII Early Lyric
Chapter IX Elizabethan Lyric. The Love Poetry
Chapter X Elizabethan Lyric. Other Themes
Chapter XI Poetry and Dogma
Chapter XII Warton Lecture on English Poetry
Biography
John Drinkwater
