(H/B) THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF A POEM

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A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.
In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats, and Hazlitt. The centerpiece of the volume is Abrams's eloquent and incisive essay "The Fourth Dimension of a Poem" on the pleasure of reading poems aloud, accompanied by online recordings of Abrams's revelatory readings of poems such as William Wordsworth's "Surprised by Joy," Alfred Tennyson's "Here Sleeps the Crimson Petal," and Ernest Dowson's "Cynara." The collection begins with a foreword by Abrams's former student Harold Bloom. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword - Harold Bloom
The Fourth Dimension of a Poem
Keats' Poems: The Material Dimensions
What Is a Humanistic Criticism?
The Language and Methods of Humanism
How to Prove an Interpretation
"This Green Earth": The Vision of Nature in the Romantic Poets
Kant and the Theology of Art
Spiritual Travelers in the Literature of the West
Point-Blank Prose: The Essays of William Hazlitt
Acknowledgments
Index