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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
Bernard O´donoghue
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', and that poetry is 'a higher truth'. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry'--from the Greeks to ... Read more
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', and that poetry is 'a higher truth'. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry'--from the Greeks to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199229116
SKU
9780199229116
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About Bernard O´donoghue
Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. Also a poet and a literary critic, his poetry collection Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus, 1995) was awarded the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has authored and edited several titles, including The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (CUP, 2008) and Reading Chaucer's Poems: ... Read more
Reviews for Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
...achieves an air of indispensability, as both a guidebook for the enquiring beginner, and as a handbook of poetic values for the determined practitioner.
Simon Armitage
Everyone near the beginning of their life in poetry will want to have this book, and everyone further down the track will value it as a stimulation.
Andrew Motion
A ... Read more
Simon Armitage
Everyone near the beginning of their life in poetry will want to have this book, and everyone further down the track will value it as a stimulation.
Andrew Motion
A ... Read more