Discovering Poetry

by Elizabeth Drew and Elizabeth A. Drew

Book Overview

The whole of this book is an effort to try and discover in what poetic genius consists, and in what ways we may best rain ourselves to recognize and to enjoy it. But in any such enquiry, we are immediately challenged at the outset by a pertinent and disquieting question. Why write about poetry, when the poets themselves are there to speak? Everything they have to say, they can very well say for themselves: do we not 'murder to dissect'? For there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393001105
• ISBN13: 9780393001105
• Release Date: April 1962
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"