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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bernard O'DonoghueSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2019-12-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199229116ISBN-10:199229112UPC:9780199229116Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:PoetrySize:6.80 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCBT3BKQT8
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize 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 the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poetry is for, and considers contemporary debates on its value. Is there a universality to poetry? And does it have a duty of public utility and responsibility?

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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199229116ISBN-10:199229112UPC:9780199229116Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:PoetrySize:6.80 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCBT3BKQT8
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: A Guided Selection (Faber, 2015). In 2006, his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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