On the limits of poetry,
selected essays: 1928-1948 /
Allen Tate.
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New York :
Swallow Press,
1948.
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from Irem Collection items] in the NLI Catalogue. Selected from the author's previously pub. works: The hovering fly, Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas, and Reason in madness. Physical description: xviii, 379 p. ; 22 cm. more |
Table of Contents:
1.The present function of criticism
Literature as knowledge
Miss Emily and the bibliographer
The function of the critical quarterly
2.Tension in poetry
Three types of poetry
Understanding modern poetry
Techniques of fiction
The hovering fly
3.A reading of Keats
Hardy's philosophical metaphors
Emily Dickinson
Yeats's romanticism
Hart Crane
John Peale Bishop
Narcissus as Narcissus
4.The profession of letters in the South
The new provincialism
What is a traditional society?
Religion and the old South
5.A note on Donne
A note on Elizabethan satire
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
MacLeish's conquistador.
1.The present function of criticism
Literature as knowledge
Miss Emily and the bibliographer
The function of the critical quarterly
2.Tension in poetry
Three types of poetry
Understanding modern poetry
Techniques of fiction
The hovering fly
3.A reading of Keats
Hardy's philosophical metaphors
Emily Dickinson
Yeats's romanticism
Hart Crane
John Peale Bishop
Narcissus as Narcissus
4.The profession of letters in the South
The new provincialism
What is a traditional society?
Religion and the old South
5.A note on Donne
A note on Elizabethan satire
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
MacLeish's conquistador.