C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose
Albert Gelpi
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Description for C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose
Hardcover. A selection of the prose writings of the poet and novelist Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), poet laureate and Oxford professor of poetry, who published more than twenty volumes of poetry in his lifetime. Editor(s): O'Donoghue, Bernard; Gelpi, Albert. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a metaphor for the creative process. Day-Lewis as poet is, then, the organizing idea of this anthology, and the selections indicate the scope and range of his vital engagement with English life and letters. Organised into four parts, the volume illustrates Day-Lewis's reflections on the role and function of poetry in society and ... Read more
C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a metaphor for the creative process. Day-Lewis as poet is, then, the organizing idea of this anthology, and the selections indicate the scope and range of his vital engagement with English life and letters. Organised into four parts, the volume illustrates Day-Lewis's reflections on the role and function of poetry in society and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198766117
SKU
V9780198766117
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About Albert Gelpi
Albert Gelpi is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, emeritus at Stanford University. He is author of Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet (1965) and The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet (1975) and editor of The Poet in America: 1650 to the Present, Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism, The Blood ... Read more
Reviews for C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose
For anyone wanting an elegant, accessible, thought-provoking exploration of poetry and its unique power to change minds as well as hearts, the texts collected here are less a golden bridle and more a gold mine.
The Spectator
The Golden Bridle is sympathetically and helpfully compiled and edited, an act of love as much as of scholarship.
Rory ... Read more
The Spectator
The Golden Bridle is sympathetically and helpfully compiled and edited, an act of love as much as of scholarship.
Rory ... Read more