Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Brooks, Cleanth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826207758 ISBN 13: 9780826207753

Publisher: University of Missouri, 1991

Synopsis

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. 

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0826207758
• ISBN 13: 9780826207753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184