The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry"This book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. The specific works ... are: Donne's The Canonization, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso, Herrick's Corinna's going a-Maying, Pope's The rape of the lock, Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard, Wordsworth's Ode: intimations of immortality from Recollections of early childhood, Keat's Ode on a grecian urn, Tennyson's Tears, idle tears, Yeats's Among school children"--Cover. |
Contents
The Language of Paradox | 3 |
The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness | 22 |
The Light Symbolism in LAllegroIl Penseroso | 50 |
What Does Poetry Communicate? | 67 |
The Case of Miss Arabella Fermor | 80 |
Grays Storied Urn | 105 |
Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination | 124 |
History without Footnotes | 151 |
The Motivation of Tennysons Weeper | 167 |
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