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The fourth dimension of a poem : and other essays

Title
  1. The fourth dimension of a poem : and other essays / M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom.
Published by
  1. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Supplementary content
  1. Additional material at accompanying Web site
Author
  1. Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015.

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Description
  1. xiv, 240 p.; 22 cm
Summary
  1. In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent literary critic, scholar and teacher M.H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats and Hazlitt. The centrepiece of the volume is Abrams's eloquent and incisive essay "The Fourth Dimension of a Poem" on the pleasure of reading poems aloud, accompanied by online recordings of Abrams's revelatory readings of poems such as William Wordsworth's "Surprised by Joy", Alfred Tennyson's "Here Sleeps the Crimson Petal" and Ernest Dowson's "Cynara". The collection begins with a foreword by Abrams's former student Harold Bloom.
Subject
  1. Poetry
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  3. Poetry > History and criticism
  4. Poetics
  5. Poetik
  6. Lyrik
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. The fourth dimension of a poem -- Keats' poems : the material dimensions -- What is a humanistic criticism? -- The language and methods of humanism -- How to prove an interpretation -- "This green earth" : the vision of nature in the Romantic poets -- Kant and the theology of art -- Spiritual travelers in the literature of the West -- Point-blank prose : the essays of William Hazlitt.
Call number
  1. JFD 15-5295
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015.
Title
  1. The fourth dimension of a poem : and other essays / M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom.
Imprint
  1. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Connect to:
  1. Additional material at accompanying Web site
LCCN
  1. 2012020169
ISBN
  1. 9780393058307 (hardcover)
  2. 0393058301 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-5295
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