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Hypnotic Poetry : A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significance / Edward D. Snyder.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Edward D., Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- English poetry--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Hypnotism.
- Literature--Psychology.
- Literature.
- Poetry.
- English-speaking countries.
- English-speaking countries--Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- An analysis of the psychological effect of word arrangement in various well-known poems.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contents
- I. Spellweaving Poems
- II. An Illuminating Hypothesis
- III. Hypnotism and Other Trances
- IV. Evidence
- V. Semihypnotic Poems
- VI. Poetic Inspiration
- VII. Free Verse in America
- VIII. Is Poetry an Escape from Reality?
- IX. The Seat of the Scornful
- X. Towards a Sounder Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index of Poets
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512807448
- 1512807443
- OCLC:
- 979882557
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