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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968. Nature of literature. New York, Horizon Press, 1956 (OCoLC)590720474 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herbert Read |
| OCLC Number: | 964578 |
| Notes: | First published in London in 1938 under title: Collected essays in literary criticism. |
| Description: | 381 p. 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The nature of poetry: Organic and abstract form -- The personality of the poet -- Poetic diction -- The structure of the poem -- The nature of metaphysical poetry -- Obscurity in poetry -- Myth, dream and poem -- The poetic experience -- The nature of criticism: Froissart -- Malory -- Descartes -- Swift -- Vauvenargues -- Tobias Smollett -- Sterne -- Hawthorne -- Charlotte and Emily Brontë -- Bagehot -- Coventry Patmore -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Henry James. |
| Other Titles: | Collected essays in literary criticism |
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