English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats - Brossura

Barnes, T

 
9780521094337: English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats

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While verse as sound is its main concern, the book can be read as an introductory history of English verse from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

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Descrizione del libro

Every poet has a characteristic tone of voice and his own rhythm. T. R. Barnes' chief interest is this 'sound poems make in the head' and his particular gift is to help us to hear what is going on in the individual poem and to catch the poet's individuality.

Contenuti

Introduction; 1. The sixteenth century; 2. Blank verse; 3. The seventeenth century; 4. The eighteenth century; 5. The Romantics; 6. The Victorians; 7. The twentieth century; Index.

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9780521041096: English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521041090 ISBN 13:  9780521041096
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1967
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