The Story Of Poetry: Volume 3: From Pope To Burns - Brossura

Schmidt, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0297848704 ISBN 13: 9780297848707

Casa editrice: W&N, 2007

Riassunto

An easy to read, fascinating story of the politics behind the poetry, followed by the poetry itself. The Story of Poetry follows the style of this classic new series, with the first half of each volume showing how poetry was as much a reflection and sometime-counterweighted reaction to the current affairs of its own times. The poetry comes alive when we see it set contextually. The Story of Poetry, Volume III: From Pope to Burns, is certain to become a classic and indispensable historical anthology, accessible and comprehensive. '[In the eighteenth century], a rural English wholesomeness survives, but only just. The wider world is one of cultural importations and studied politeness on the one hand, and aggressive xenophobia on the other. A year after Indian printed calicoes were banned because they were too popular, the novelist-to-be Daniel Defoe wrote his one famous poem, The True-Born Englishman (1701), making fun of national prejudices which threatened to impoverish English political and cultural life for years to come. The political point of his poem was rather more ingratiating, for the King of England was not English-born and the King was himself a catalyst of xenophobia...' 'If we miss out or over-simplify the eighteenth century, we misread the nineteenth and twentieth and, more to the point, we ignore some extraordinary poetry.' From The Story of Poetry, Volume 3

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Recensione:

"a detailed and deftly handled examination of poetry from Alexander Pope to Robert Burns... His opinions are presented with confidence , justified by the breadth of his knowledge." (OBSERVER)

"useful companion volumes that introduce the political and social background to the lives and works of the leading British poets...useful not only to college students of 18th-century poetry but to the casual browser." (THE TIMES)

L'autore:

Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. He edits the magazine PN Review and is the founder and editorial director of Carcanet Press. He has translated poems and essays by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz.

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0297848704
• ISBN 13: 9780297848707
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560