| Edition |
2nd ed., rev. and amplified / with other essays. |
| Description |
xvi, 234 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
"This book in its original form consisted of six lectures ... delivered at Cornell University in ... 1941 namely, the Messenger lectures on the evolution of civilization."--P. [vi]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-234). |
| Contents |
Shifts of sensibility -- The doctrine of critical relativism -- The critic's responsibility -- What is poetry? -- Pure poetry in theory and practice -- Emergent idiom -- An alternative beginning and a summary -- Dogma, science, and poetry -- The moral evaluation of literature. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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