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Leigh Hunt & What is Poetry?
Flemming Olsen
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Description for Leigh Hunt & What is Poetry?
Paperback. Leigh Hunt is mostly known as an idiosyncratic and mediocre poet. His essay "What Is Poetry?", which, apart from comments of a more theoretical kind, contains numerous examples from several ages and languages of what in his opinion qualified as fine poetry. This title provides an analysis and critique of the essay. Num Pages: 71 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 154.
To most literary historians, the name of Leigh Hunt does not rank very high: he is mostly known as an idiosyncratic and mediocre poet, a versatile but slightly superficial critic, a man who taxed his friends patience to the utmost, and -- probably most of all -- the man who exercised an evil influence on Keats. However, there is much more to Hunt than has hitherto been written about him. He was a voracious reader who had a well-developed literary taste, and was a true democrat in that he wanted the interested layman to share the enthusiasm which ... Read more
To most literary historians, the name of Leigh Hunt does not rank very high: he is mostly known as an idiosyncratic and mediocre poet, a versatile but slightly superficial critic, a man who taxed his friends patience to the utmost, and -- probably most of all -- the man who exercised an evil influence on Keats. However, there is much more to Hunt than has hitherto been written about him. He was a voracious reader who had a well-developed literary taste, and was a true democrat in that he wanted the interested layman to share the enthusiasm which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
71
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
71
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194437
SKU
V9781845194437
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99-12
About Flemming Olsen
Flemming Olsen was for many years Reader in English Literature and The Teaching of Literature at the University of Copenhagen. His courses included Shakespeare, Fielding, Wordsworth, Arnold, and Eliot. He has written several books and articles, including: Elements of Textual Analysis, Active Grammar, and Thomas Arnold the Teacher. In 2008 the University Press of Denmark published his Between Positivism and ... Read more
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