Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
Subtitle: Introductions to Close Reading
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521347747
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Poetry; French poetry; Literary Criticism; Europe; Continental European; European - General; French poetry--19th century--History and crit; French poetry--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-European - General; Poetry-Continental European; 19th century; History and criticism
First sentence: 'I am inclined to think', wrote I. A. Richards in one of the great pioneering works on the study of poetry (Practical Criticism), 'that four poems are too many for a week's reading - absurd though this suggestion will seem to those godlike lords of the syllabus-world, who think that the whole of English literature can be perused with profit in about a year!"