Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism

by Lowry Nelson Jr.

""An astonishingly wide-ranging study of the nature of poetic language. While its focus is lyric poetry selected across the whole tradition of Western literature, it has implications for all forms of literary expression. ---Marshall Brown, University of Washington In the vast diversity of Western civilization, poetry has traditions both national and international that span three millennia. To write a coherent critical history of even just lyric poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026596
• ISBN13: 9780271026596
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"