| Against Coercion: Games Poets Play Contributor(s): Cook, Eleanor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804729379 ISBN-13: 9780804729376 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1998 Annotation: " This brilliantly written work is authentic literary criticism: sharp, perceptive, learned, original, individual, and life-enhancing. The scholarship is both astonishing and in itself a mode of wit; its handling is exquisite. The book establishes Cook as a first-rate critic." -- Harold Bloom, Yale University. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 809.1 |
| LCCN: 97027591 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.3" W x 9.24" (1.44 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions. It also demonstrates how to read poetry-how to go beyond an elementary approach, to recover the sheer pleasure of good poems. |