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Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Cleanth Brooks

Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry

184 pages

Published: May 1991

ISBN: 9780826207753

Format:

Hardcover

Price: $40.00

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About This Book

This series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came. 

Authors and Editors

Cleanth Brooks is Gray Professor of Rhetoric, Emeritus, at Yale University.  He is author and editor of many books, most recently, On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner.

Praise For This Book

"This is a literate and humane work that helps to complete the record of a great critic and a man who deeply influenced the course of letters and of education in America. Brooks is still a fine stylist--clear, observant, free of jargon--an acute reader of poetry, and a lover of literature always willing to explore areas off the beaten track."--O. B. Hardison

"Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry is not simply an exercise in practical criticism. Although it consistently displays the quiet patience of the trained scholar, it has an underlying polemical purpose: to refute the charge that the New Criticism, in its concern with literary structure and poetic form, is blind to history."--New Criterion

"In the course of these elegant--and learned--readings, he demonstrates a new why the New Criticism continues to be the most vital critical force in the classroom and on the page."--Choice

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