The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s

by Michael Hamburger

First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times? Michael Hamburger's answer to this question ranges over the last century of European and American poetry, and the result is a phenomenology of modern poetry rather than a history of appreciations of individual poets. Stressing the tensions and conflicts in and behind the work of every major poet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032198885
• ISBN13: 9781032198880
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages