The death of metaphor
By: Desmond Egan.
Publisher: Colin Smythe; The Goldsmith Press Ltd
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Gerrards Cross
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Poetry and poets.; title: The death of metaphor; title: The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh; title: Poetry and translation; title: Poetry and the abyss; title: Poetry and politics : Yannis Ritsos; title: A note on Oliver Goldsmith; title: The room upstairs : poetry in modern society; title: W.H. Auden : A Carnival of Intellect?; title: Filling in the background : T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson; title: Mairtin O Direain; title: A word on Ezra Pound; title: Encounters.; title: Meeting Beckett; title: Thucydides and Lough Owel : the Greek influence; title: Roderic O'Conor, an Irish artist; title: The writer and religion; title: A Lack of Beauty in Our Lives : James McKenna's achievement; title: Peter Connolly (1927-1987); title: Hobbyhorses.; title: Art and inspiration; title: Heading for that desert island; title: Singing and Plato; title: Comedy or tragedy?; title: The use of the verb "to be"; title: Music and spontaneity; title: Two kinds of poetry; title: Music; title: Pound's silence; title: Marcel Marceau from the wings; title: Traditional Irish music; title: The death of Virgil; title: Buying Time; title: Poetry : a definition; title: The haiku : metaphor transcended