The Place of Poetry: Two Centuries of an Art in Crisis

Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad aud

Author: Christopher Clausen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780813151700

About the Author

Christopher Clausen is a poet and an associate professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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