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. |
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User Review - jburlinson - LibraryThingA classic, of course. The ideas have been so thoroughly assimilated that they may seem elementary and even banal. But it's important to re-read occasionally and reflect not only their novelty at the ... Read full review
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User Review - vpfluke - LibraryThingI rather enjoyed reading through this 1947 book, which is relatively free of exogenous literary theory. Brooks takes one work from each of ten significant poets from Shakespeare and John Donne to ... Read full review
Contents
PREFACE | 7 |
Cloak of Manliness | 22 |
The Light Symbolism | 50 |
What Does Poetry Communicate? | 67 |
The Case of Miss Arabella Fermor | 80 |
Grays Storied | 105 |
Wordsworth and | 124 |
The Motivation | 167 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry Issue 11 of Harvest book, ISSN 2690-5876 University paperbacks |
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1947 |
| ISBN | 0156957051, 9780156957052 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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