The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

di Robert Crawford (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2004

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Ever since English literary works became the focus of university studies, classroom discussion has shaped attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

• Autore: Robert Crawford
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 308 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 401 gr.
• EAN: 9780199269327

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