The art of poetry : the Oxford lectures, 1984-1989
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The art of poetry : the Oxford lectures, 1984-1989
Yale University Press, c1991
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Bibliographical references: p. 313-327
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, Peter Levi, poet, biographer, classicist and critic looks at poets and poetry through the centuries and in many languages. Simply, without technicalities, and with quotation. Levi seeks to instruct and encourage young and old readers of poetry. Based on the lectures given by Levi as holder of the prestigious Chair of Poetry at Oxford University between 1984-9, the book sheds light on a varied selection of poets ranging from Aeschylus, Horace, Shakespeare and Milton to Auden, Larkin, Lear, Pound and James Fenton. Levi communicates real enjoyment of poetry and pride in the poet's art. "My approach", he writes, "mostly comes from tacking the poems perfectly seriously as human statements, murmuring with pleasure over their technique, and casting a beady glance at history and literary history".
Table of Contents
- The lamentation of the dead
- Dryden's virgil
- the Aeneid
- Aeschylus
- the visionary poets
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Philip Larkin
- Louis McNeice
- Ezra Pund
- Robert Lowell
- George Seferis
- W.H. Auden
- Anon
- goodbye to the art of poetry.
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