How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry

• Tác giả: Willard Spiegelman
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0195174917 (acid-free paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 811.54 American poetry in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Mô tả vật lý: xi, 238 pages ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 274402
• Chủ đề: 1. American poetry--History and criticism--20th century; 2. Art and literature--United States; 3. Art in literature; 4. Description (Rhetoric); 5. Ekphrasis; 6. Landscapes in literature; 7. Nature in literature; 8. Vision in literature; 9. Visual perception in literature

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.

Tóm tắt

"Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work."--BOOK JACKET.