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The well wrought urn : studies in the structure of poetry

Print Book, English, ©1974
Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, ©1974
Harvest book, HB-11, HB11
poetry
xiv, 300 pages ; 19 cm.
9780156957052, 0156957051
229425913
The language of paradox
The naked babe and the cloak of manliness
The light symbolism in "L'allegro-Il Penseroso"
What does poetry communicate?
The case of Miss Arabella Fermor
Gray's storied urn
Wordsworth and the paradox of the imagination
Keats's Sylvan historian: history without footnotes
The motivation of Tennyson's weeper
Yeats's great rooted blossomer
The heresy of paraphrase
Appendix 1: Criticism, history, and critical relativism
Appendix 2: The problem of belief and the problem of cognition
Appendix 3: Text of poems