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Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics (Princeton Legacy Library, 5351) by Andrew Welsh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics (Princeton Legacy Library, 5351) about?
Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to higher powers in poetry from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and how an awareness of them can illuminate our reading of the poetry of any age. Andrew Welsh is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers Universit
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- Author
- Andrew Welsh
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691655529
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Reference, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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