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Why poetry matters /
Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Why X matters.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Defending poetry
- Language
- The personal voice
- The way of metaphor
- Tradition and originality
- Form and freedom
- The politics of poetry
- A natural world
- Divine parameters : a reading of 'Four quartets.'