
From a short lyric to a complex novel, follow Reuben Brower's lead through the attentive reader's fields of light. In this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to attending...



The author proposes a critical approach based on a line-by-line search for images, metaphors, symbols, and the links between them. Studied are works by Shakespeare, Woolf, Pope, Austen, and Forster.
