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Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Cleanth Brooks has deeply influenced the course of letters and
literature in America. As coauthor (with Robert Penn Warren) of
""Understanding poetry"", he has helped bring poems to life for
many thousands of students. His subsequent studies, including
""Modern poetry and the tradition"" and ""The well-wrought urn"",
have been praised by students and scholars like and have
established him as a critic of stature. His ""Historical evidence""
indicates how sadly he has been misrepresented as a kind of
""formalist"" who has no concern for biography land history. This
series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some
dozen particular 17th century poems deal with the history of the
time out of which they came. With the exception of those by Andrew
Marvell, they are the work of minor poets, such as Henry Ling,
Richard Corbett, James Shirley, Richard Lovelace, Aurelian
Townshend, Richard Fanshawe, and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
Yet the poems were not chosen merely in the interest of advancing
an idea. They are highly interesting in themselves. What Brooks has
done with each of these 17th century poets is what he's spent a
lifetine doing - bringing their poems to life for a 20th century
reader. This book responds to the terrible ills that have befallen
our approach to literature. Without waving flags or hurling abuse
at a real or imagined foe, Brooks makes it clear how important a
knowledge of history and culture may be to the reader of
literature. Brooks provides original readings of specific poems and
poets. This book should interest students of 17th century poetry in
particular and among appreciators of literature in general.
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