The place of poetry : two centuries of an art in crisis / Christopher Clausen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clausen, Christopher, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--English-speaking countries.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad audience, the audience began to dwindle toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the decline accel

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Rhyme or Reason; TWO: Poetry as Revelation; THREE: The Land of Lost Content; FOUR: The Palgrave Version; FIVE: New Bottles; SIX: Grecian Thoughts in the Home Fields; SEVEN: The Place of Poetry; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813185927

0813185920

9780813162447

0813162440

OCLC:

558431724