Presenting Poetry
Subtitle: Composition, Publication, Reception
Contributors: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor); Richard A. McCabe (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521473606
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry texts & anthologies; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English Poetry
First sentence: Et in Arcadia Ego: the famous inscription on Poussin's Arcadian tomb mutely voices not merely the objective fact of mortality but the pervasive, subjective melancholy of pastoral complaint.