The poet's calling in the English ode / Paul H. Fry
1980, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #409279
ISBN: 0300024002
Physical description: viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction: The man at the gate -- The pressure of sense in some odes of Jonson and Drayton -- Milton's light-harnessed ode -- "Alexander's feast" and the tyranny of music -- Thomas Gray's feather'd cincture -- The tented sky in the odes of Collins -- Wordsworth's severe intimations -- The wedding guest in "Dejection" -- Shelley and the celebration of power -- Voice in the leaves: three odes of Keats -- "To autumn" and the sound of being -- Postscript: The ode after "Autumn." Subjects: Odes, English History and criticism; English poetry History and criticism; Odes History and criticism; English poetry; Poetry in English Odes, 1558-1837 Critical studies; Poetry in English Odes 1558-1837.
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