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The Man from Porlock : Engagements, 1944-1981 /
These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses t...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1982.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The man from Porlock
- pt. 1. E.P.: the man who cared too much
- Wallace Stevens: lunching with Hoon
- Retrospecting the retrospectives
- The blight of modernism and Philip Larkin's antidote
- The many-sidedness of modernism
- pt. 2. The nonsense of Winters' Anatomy
- Between two worlds or on the move
- T.S. Eliot and the courtyard revolution
- How to end the Renaissance
- pt. 3. Franz Kafka and the economy of chaos
- Giacomo Leopardi, pioneer among exiles
- As the wind sits: the poetics of King Lear
- Lucretius: the imagination of the literal.