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How Poets See the World : the Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry.
Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxfor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198039006 019803900X 1280428228 9781280428227 1423746104 9781423746102 1602565163 9781602565166 |