The Poet's Defence

Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets.

J. Bronowski (Author)

9781107505353, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 May 2015

266 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.29 kg

Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the reasons why English poets took an interest in criticism and how the role of poets as critics affected English criticism at large by taking Sidney, Dryden, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Swinburne, Housman and Yeats as his examples. This book will be of value to anyone with an in English literature and literary criticism.

Foreword
Sidney and Shelley: Philip Sidney
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Dryden
Wordsworth and Coleridge: William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swinburne and his Heirs: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred Edward Housman
William Butler Yeats
List of passages quoted
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]