Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
Subtitle: Introductions to Close Reading
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780521345415
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literary Criticism; French; French Poetry; French poetry--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Collections / Continental European; History and criticism; 19th century
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!"