The well wrought urn
Subtitle: studies in the structure of poetry
By: by Cleanth Brooks.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World; Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780156957052
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism.; Poetry.
Description: "This book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. The specific works ... are: Donne's The Canonization, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso, Herrick's Corinna's going a-Maying, Pope's The rape of the lock, Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard, Wordsworth's Ode: intimations of immortality from Recollections of early childhood, Keat's Ode on a grecian urn, Tennyson's Tears, idle tears, Yeats's Among school children"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The language of paradox; title: The naked babe and the cloak of manliness; title: The light symbolism in "L'allegro-il penseroso"; title: What does poetry communicate?; title: The case of Miss Arabella Fermor; title: Gray's storied urn; title: Wordsworth and the paradox of the imagination; title: Keats's sylvan historian: history without footnotes; title: The motivation of Tennyson's weeper; title: Yeats's great rooted blossomer; title: The heresy of paraphrase.