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The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language

The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language - Poets on Poetry

Hardback (22 May 2007)

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780472099573
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.52
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 406g
Height: 210mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 23mm