num_pages: 211
description: The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on poetry's special ability to rectify spiritual balance as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces, in a collection of ten lectures on the work of such diverse poets as Christopher Marlowe, John Clare, Oscar Wilde, and Elizabeth Bishop.
language: English
title: The Redress of Poetry
titlecomplete: The Redress of Poetry
genres: Lit Crit, Irish Literature, Poetry, Ireland, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Essays, Theory, Nonfiction, Literature
ratings_count: 262
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux