A Critical History of English Poetry

by J.C. Smith and Herbert John Clifford Grierson

Book Overview

This famous work was the result of the wartime collaboration of two Scottish scholars. Their tracing of the course of English poetry has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as a 'volume of masterly compression'. They deliberately spend most time on the greatest poets, believing that, significant as traditions and influences are, the great poet himself affects the spirit of his age and moulds the tradition he has inherited. At the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472508254
• ISBN13: 9781472508256
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"