Poetic artifice: A theory of twentieth-century poetry

Poetic artifice: A theory of twentieth-century poetry image
ISBN-10:

0719007143

ISBN-13:

9780719007149

Released: Jan 01, 1978
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
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Description:

First published posthumously in 1978 by Manchester University Press, this volume turned sharply against critics of the previous generation, notably William Empson, and against emergent strains of historicism. The book is an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) defence of "all the rhythmic, phonetic, verbal, and logical devices which make poetry different from prose." According to the author, such devices are responsible for poetry's most significant effect-not pleasure or ornament or some kind of special expressivity, but the production of "alternative imaginary orders."

























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