The Poet and His Audience

by Ian Jack

Book Overview

How far, and in what respects, is a poet's work influenced by the kind of audience for which he writes? The question is crucial to our understanding of how great poems came to be written, yet it has rarely been addressed in a systematic study. In this fascinating and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden, Pope, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, and Yeats - and has traced the career of each to discover the nature and the extent of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521278090
• ISBN13: 9780521278096
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"