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The fourth dimension of a poem, and other essays, M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom

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The fourth dimension of a poem, and other essays, M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The fourth dimension of a poem

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bibliography

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783160157

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M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom

Sub title

and other essays

Summary

In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent 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 centrepiece 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

Table Of Contents

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

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