Poets Thinking

Author: Helen Vendler
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 067402110X

Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. Download Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be f Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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