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The Man from Porlock : Engagements, 1944-1981 / ed. by René Weiss, Theodore Russell Weiss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Series of Collected Essays ; 521Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (330 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691614342
  • 9781400857401
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • PN511 .W43 1982
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Man From Porlock -- Part I -- Ε.P.: The Man Who Cared Too Much -- Wallace Stevens: Lunching With Hoon -- Retrospecting the Retrospectives -- The Blight of Modernism and Philip Larkin's Antidote -- The Many-sidedness of Modernism -- Part II -- The Nonsense of Winters' Anatomy -- Between Two Worlds or On the Move -- Τ. S. Eliot and the Courtyard Revolution -- How to End the Renaissance -- Part III -- Franz Kafka and the Economy of Chaos -- Giacomo Leopardi Pioneer Among Exiles -- As the Wind Sits: The Poetics of King Lear -- Lucretius: The Imagination of the Literal Several
Summary: These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400857401

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Man From Porlock -- Part I -- Ε.P.: The Man Who Cared Too Much -- Wallace Stevens: Lunching With Hoon -- Retrospecting the Retrospectives -- The Blight of Modernism and Philip Larkin's Antidote -- The Many-sidedness of Modernism -- Part II -- The Nonsense of Winters' Anatomy -- Between Two Worlds or On the Move -- Τ. S. Eliot and the Courtyard Revolution -- How to End the Renaissance -- Part III -- Franz Kafka and the Economy of Chaos -- Giacomo Leopardi Pioneer Among Exiles -- As the Wind Sits: The Poetics of King Lear -- Lucretius: The Imagination of the Literal Several

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These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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