Modern Poetry and the Tradition

By Cleanth Brooks

Book Overview

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.

Originally published in 1939.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807840483
• ISBN13: 9780807840481
• Release Date: January 1939
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"