UID:
almafu_9959236348902883
Format:
1 online resource (156 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8131-8592-0
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0-8131-6244-0
Content:
Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad audience, the audience began to dwindle toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the decline accel
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Rhyme or Reason; TWO: Poetry as Revelation; THREE: The Land of Lost Content; FOUR: The Palgrave Version; FIVE: New Bottles; SIX: Grecian Thoughts in the Home Fields; SEVEN: The Place of Poetry; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-60193-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-5170-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
