Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

Author:   John Hollander
Publisher:   Yale University Press
ISBN:  

9780300042931


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   26 October 1988
Format:   Hardback
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Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the melodious guile with which poetry speaks to us. Through analysis of formal and rhetorical patterns in examples chosen from the whole spectrum of English and American poetry, Hollander describes how poems form self-reflexive parable in order to represent realms beyond themselves. As astute a book about poetry as anyone has produced in the last five years. -David Lehman, Newsday A lively and enlivening work of criticism. -Library Journal Hollander, himself a fine poet, is such a generalist; and Melodious Guile, to my mind the best of his critical books, takes its place . . . among the very few enjoyable and enriching studies of how poetry works. -Alastair Fowler, London Review of Books An incisive display of beautifully integrated erudition. John Hollander demonstrates, just as post-structuralism is waning, that there are other, more cogent theoretical terms for thinking about poetry and for a return to the reading of poetry. -Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley Nominated for a 1988 National Book Circle Award in Criticism

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Author:   John Hollander
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 16.60cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9780300042931


ISBN 10:   0300042930
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   26 October 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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