Poetry: A Very Short Introduction

by Bernard O'Donoghue

Book Overview

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this -- such as Shelley's that the poets "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," and that poetry is "a higher truth."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199229112
• ISBN13: 9780199229116
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.8"