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Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the reasons why English poets took an interest in criticism and how the role of poets as critics affected English criticism at large by taking Sidney, Dryden, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Swinburne, Housman and Yeats as his examples. This book will be of value to anyone with an in English literature and literary criticism.

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Foreword; Sidney and Shelley: Philip Sidney; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Dryden; Wordsworth and Coleridge: William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Swinburne and his Heirs: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Alfred Edward Housman; William Butler Yeats; List of passages quoted; Index.

The Poets Defence

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 5/21/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781107505353
      978-1107505353
      ISBN-10 1107505356

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the reasons why English poets took an interest in criticism and how the role of poets as critics affected English criticism at large by taking Sidney, Dryden, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Swinburne, Housman and Yeats as his examples. This book will be of value to anyone with an in English literature and literary criticism.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword; Sidney and Shelley: Philip Sidney; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Dryden; Wordsworth and Coleridge: William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Swinburne and his Heirs: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Alfred Edward Housman; William Butler Yeats; List of passages quoted; Index.

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