Screen LibraryThe fourth dimension of a poem : and other essays /
In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent literary critic, scholar and teacher M.H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Group Author: | |
| Published: |
W. W. Norton & Co.,
|
| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent literary critic, scholar and teacher M.H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats and Hazlitt. The centrepiece of the volume is Abrams's eloquent and incisive essay "The Fourth Dimension of a Poem" on the pleasure of reading poems aloud, accompanied by online recordings of Abrams's revelatory readings |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 240 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780393058307 (hardcover) : 0393058301 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | PN1031 |
| CLC: | I106.2 |
| Call Number: | I106.2/A161 |
| Contents: | The fourth dimension of a poem -- Keats' poems : the material dimensions -- What is a humanistic criticism? -- The language and methods of humanism -- How to prove an interpretation -- "This green earth" : the vision of nature in the Romantic poets -- Kant and the theology of art -- Spiritual travelers in the literature of the West -- Point-blank prose : the essays of William Hazlitt. |