Author : John Hollander
Release : 1990-07-25
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 046/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Melodious Guile by : John Hollander
Download or read book Melodious Guile written by John Hollander. This book was released on 1990-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" of poetry, explaining how poems frame parables about themselves. Hollander considers works by Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, chiefly, plus a range of other poets including Chaucer, Keats, Rossetti, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden. He also presents certain poems of his own, showing how they anticipate and exemplify the observations contained in this volume.