The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne & The Complete Poetry of William Blake

Edité par The Modern Library, New York, 1941

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Conversational poetry is as old as the recorded word. It differs from the more usual rhetorical style, for its speech is intimate. It does not rely so much on traditional symbols but creates them as it goes along; its phrasing is, as a rule, shorter and more closely fitted to the living voice; it can make sudden leaps to a sublimity toward which rhetoric would have to climb slowly, or, in unguarded moments, plunge into the pit of bathos. The rhetorical style has a past and delights us with verbal associations, whereas the aim of the conversational style is immediacy; the associations are personal. Indeed, there are few poets who have limited themselves to one style or the other. Among the few basic qualities shared by John Donne and William Blake, especially in their best-known work, was the recognition, by each for his own period, that the formal method needed shaking up. Two hundred years apart, each found himself at the end of a tremendous age, when no effort of fevered technique could invent ornament enough to hide the breaks in the Cyclopean wall. Smudging on page edges. Previous owners name on front inner board. Front binding paper loosened (see pic). Book weighs 2 lb. 0.3 oz.

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• Titre: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne & The Complete Poetry of William Blake
• Éditeur: The Modern Library, New York
• Date de parution: 1941
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry