The Language(s) of Poetry : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins

by James Olney

In this book, critic James Olney explores the work of three seemingly disparate precursors of modernism - Whitman, Dickinson and Hopkins - and establishes a set of criteria by which any reader might judge and better appreciate a poem.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314854
• ISBN13: 9780820314853
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"