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Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Cleanth Brooks

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2018
Pages: 288
Subject: Poetry | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780807840481
eBook ISBN: 9781469639383

DESCRIPTION

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.

Originally published in 1939.

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