Routledge Revivals: The Art of Discrimination (1964): Thomson's the Seasons and the Language of Criticism

by Ralph Cohen

First published in 1964, this book analyses claims and comments that English critics have made about James Thomson's poem The Seasons (1730-46). Cohen deals with the relation between 'practical' and 'philosophical' criticism of the poem that for over two hundred years has been a model for other poems, has been the subject of books and even paintings, as well as being the legal document in a copyright precedent. Cohen begins with the problems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138560111
• ISBN13: 9781138560116
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 544 Pages