| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 463 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Woe or wonder: the emotional effect of Shakespearean tragedy: Ripeness is all -- Aught of woe or wonder -- Donatan tradition -- Wonder -- Reason panders will -- Appendix I: Ancient quarrel between history and poetry -- Appendix II: Tragedy as essence -- 2. Tradition and poetic structure: Poetry, structure, and tradition -- Classical and medieval: Statius on sleep -- Logic and lyric: Marvell, Dunbar, and Nashe -- Convention as structure: the prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Idea as structure: The phoenix and turtle -- Plots and errors: Hamlet and King Lear -- Tradition and modernity: Wallace Stevens -- 3. Problem of form -- Problem of style -- How shall the poem be written? -- Graduate training in English -- 4. Ideal fiction: The clerk's tale -- Renaissance in England -- Lyric style in the 1590s -- With that facility: false starts and revisions in Love's labour's lost -- In Shakespeare's day -- Heart of his mystery -- Sorting out: the case of Dickinson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson: a brief biography -- Styles and procedures of Wallace Stevens -- T.S. Eliot on poetry and poets -- 5. Quest of the Opal: a commentary on The helmsman -- Journals of John Cardan -- Several kinds of short poem -- Technology and poetry. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent), 1911-1985. Collected essays of J. V. Cunningham. 1st ed. Chicago : Swallow Press, c1976 (OCoLC)557811183 |
| ISBN |
0804006709 |
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9780804006705 |
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