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356 pages 21 cm Includes critical essays on Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Byron, Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, T.S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Japanese haiku, sonnets, Lays of Ancient Rome, Horace, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Aeneid of Virgil, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Lucan, Elegy in a country churchyard, Hamlet, Robert Browning, Faust of Goethe, and The waste land Melody in poetry -- Rhythm in poetry -- Obscurity in poetry -- Shakespeare -- Traherne -- Pope -- Burns -- Byron -- Shelley -- Emerson -- Whitman -- Housman -- Yeats -- Jeffers -- Eliot -- Cummings -- Thomas -- Auden on the baby -- Anacreon to Shelley -- Japanese haiku -- Sonnets -- Lays of ancient Rome -- Poems on insects -- Light modern verse -- Horace -- Wordsworth's great ode -- Keats's Greek ode -- The Aeneid -- Spitteler's epic -- Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Lucan's Civil war -- The elegy in a country churchyard -- Hamlet -- Eliot's 'Coriolan' -- Shakespeare's dreams and dreamers -- A Browning dramatic monologue -- Goethe's Faust -- The waste land -- What use is poetry? Includes bibliographical references

Author

Gilbert Highet

Publisher

New York, Oxford University Press

Published

1960

Language

EN