Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
(Part of the Oxford's Very Short Introductions series Series and Very Short Introductions (#614) Series)
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this -- such as Shelley's that the poets "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," and that poetry is "a higher truth."...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199229112
ISBN13:9780199229116
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.32 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.4" x 6.8"
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