Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism

by Lowry Nelson and Lowry Nelson Jr.

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 would be perhaps beyond human powers, by in his essays Lowry Nelson finds it possible to take soundings--in great epochs of inventiveness and of changing sensibility; in the extremes of expressivity; in the reader's varying fictive role--while setting in appropriate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008008
• ISBN13: 9780271008004
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"