Poetry in France and England
By: [by] Jean Stewart.
Contributors: Hogarth Press.
Series: Hogarth lectures on literature. [no. 15]; Hogarth lectures on literature -- no. 15.
Publisher: L & Virginia Woolf
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Literature, Comparative -- French and English.; Literature, Comparative -- English and French.; French poetry -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; Poetics.
Notes: "My aim has been to trace, simultaneously, the evolution of poetry in France and England ... My concern is less with poetry in itself than with the 'idea of poetry'; I have tried to discover, in each country and in each period, what the poets were trying to do, what the word poetry meant for them and their generation."--Introd.
Table of contents: The renaissance.; The late renaissance.; The Augustan age.; The romantic movement.; After romanticism.