Poetry English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Well Wrought Urn
Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2001
- Category
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780156957052
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.
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Contributor Notes
Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) was educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford universities. The Gray professor of rhetoric at Yale from 1947 to 1975, Brooks lectured and taught at many universities throughout his career. Additionally, he was co-editor, with Robert Penn Warren, of the Southern Review and the author of many books of criticism.