The Soul Is a Stranger in This World: Essays on Poets and Poetry - Couverture souple

Mattix, Micah

 
9781532660153: The Soul Is a Stranger in This World: Essays on Poets and Poetry
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ISBN 10 : 1532660154 ISBN 13 : 9781532660153
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2020

Synopsis

The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet “as a man speaking to men,” as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like André du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.

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À propos de l'auteur

Micah Mattix is Chair of English at Regent University and the literary editor of The American Conservative.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532660154
ISBN 13 
9781532660153
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1532660162 ISBN 13 :  9781532660160
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020
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