{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-the-selftaught-9781433102516","title":"The Poetry of the SelfTaught","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of the Self-Taught\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the characteristic strengths of self-taught poetry and analyzes the factors that have caused most selftaught poets to disappear from anthologies and from literary history. Raising the question of whether or not their work should be read today and taken seriously  instead of being relegated to separate and unequal categories like women's or peasant poetry  the book highlights interesting contrasts between the poetry of eighteenth-century autodidacts such as Robert Burns, Mary Leapor, C.D.F. Schubart, and Anna Louise Karsch and the work of their contemporaries, mainstream poets like Alexander Pope, James Thomson, C.F. Gellert, and Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Self-taught poetry is often treated as an index to the lives and times of the poets, but this book explores it with a different purpose: to understand and illustrate the commonalities in autodidactic poetics, imagery, rhetorical strategies, and themes. Concurrent with a recent upturn o","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039504204119,"sku":"9781433102516","price":56.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433102516.jpg?v=1750943901","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-the-selftaught-9781433102516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}