| The Enemy's Country: Words, Contexture, and Other Circumstances of Language Contributor(s): Hill, Geoffrey (Author), Hill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198112165 ISBN-13: 9780198112167 Publisher: OUP Oxford OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| LCCN: 90023969 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities. |
