The uses of poetry / Denys Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Denys, 1907-1988.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 238 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Contents:

Part I The Nature of Poetry

1 The deep roots of speech

2 Rhythm

3 Symbolising

Part II In the Beginning

1 Dance

2 The earliest poetry

3 Work songs

4 Mnemonics

Part III Rites, Bards, Ballads

1 Praise, propitiation, magic

2 Rites, myths and epics

3 Living books

4 Ballad and folk song

Part IV Maid of All Work

1 Integral with life

2 Every man a poet

3 The oral poet and his audience

4 Education

5 Branches of knowledge

Part V Patriotism and Politics

1 Eulogies

2 A new weapon of war

3 Nationhood fostered

4 Propaganda

5 Printed ballads, poets and popsongs in politics

Part VI Dissent and Protest

1 Ancient China, Greece and Israel

2 Christian and medieval

3 The sermons, Piers Plowman and Robin Hood

4 Ballads and broadsides

5 The Romantics and the industrial revolution

6 Shuttle and cage

7 America

8 The twentieth century

Part VII The Printed Poem

1 The impact of printing

2 The age of industry

3 Technology, science and poetry

4 Poetry for a minority?

Part VIII Uses of Poetry

1 To the poet

2 To the reader

3 To society

4 Poetry as therapy

5 Agenda for the arts.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 226-233.

ISBN:

0521218047.

OCLC:

3239612