description: Contents: The man of letters in the modern world -- To whom is the poet responsible? -- The symbolic imagination : the mirrors of Dante -- The angelic imagination : Poe as God -- Our cousin, Mr. Poe -- Is literary criticism possible? -- Johnson on the metaphysical poets -- Longinus and the 'new criticism' -- A miscellany : Crane: the poet as hero. Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize. A note on critical 'autotelism'. Modern poets and conventions. The point of dying: Donne's 'Virtuous men.'
language: English
title: The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays
titlecomplete: The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays (Essay index reprint series)
publisher: Ayer Co Pub