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Title: THE FAILURE OF POETRY, THE PROMISE OF LANGUAGE
By: Laura Riding Jackson, John Nolan (Editor)
Format: Paperback

List price: £24.50


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ISBN 10: 0472069578
ISBN 13: 9780472069576
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Pub. date: 1 May, 2007
Series: Poets on Poetry
Pages: 256
Description: Examines the subjects of poetry, language, and truth, the conflict between truth and art, and the range of human attitudes to the prospect of truth-speaking. This book also includes a series of comments on and judgements of the poets Coleridge, Clare, Eliot, Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Lowell, Pound, Dylan Thomas, and W C Williams.
Synopsis: In "The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language", Laura Jackson examines the subjects of poetry, language, and truth, the conflict between truth and art, and the range of human attitudes to the prospect of truth-speaking. Also included are a series of comments on and judgements of the poets Coleridge, Clare, Eliot, Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Lowell, Pound, Dylan Thomas, and W. C. Williams and selections from her correspondence ranging from 1948 to 1987.
Publication: US
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Returns: Returnable
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