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On the limits of poetry, selected essays: 1928-1948.

Author: Allen Tate
Publisher: New York, Swallow Press, 1948.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
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Tate, Allen, 1899-1979.
On the limits of poetry.
New York, Swallow Press, 1948
(OCoLC)573454186
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Allen Tate
OCLC Number: 1158503
Notes: Selected from the author's previously pub. works: The hovering fly, Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas, and Reason in madness.
Description: xviii, 379 p. 22 cm.
Contents: 1. The present function of criticism --
Literature as knowledge --
Miss Emily and the bibliographer --
The function of the critical quarterly --
2. Tension in poetry --
Three types of poetry --
Understanding modern poetry --
Techniques of fiction --
The hovering fly --
3. A reading of Keats --
Hardy's philosophical metaphors --
Emily Dickinson --
Yeats's romanticism --
Hart Crane --
John Peale Bishop --
Narcissus as Narcissus --
4. The profession of letters in the South --
The new provincialism --
What is a traditional society? --
Religion and the old South --
5. A note on Donne --
A note on Elizabethan satire --
T.S. Eliot --
Ezra Pound --
Edwin Arlington Robinson --
MacLeish's conquistador.

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