The Poetry and the Public: Where Lyric Meets Language

by Joseph Harrington

Book Overview

Since Romanticism, poetry has reigned as the most exalted of literary forms; consequently, as Joseph Harrington argues in this new study, public debates about the nature and function of poetry are really debates about larger cultural and political values. In Poetry and the Public, Harrington sheds new light on changes in the textual form of poems, the critical reception of poems, debates in the popular press about the nature of poetry and the poetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565385
• ISBN13: 9780819565389
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"