Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics

by Annie Finch

Book Overview

Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557287929
• ISBN13: 9781557287922
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"