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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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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