Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994.

Modern poetry and the tradition, by Cleanth Brooks. - Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. - xi p., 1 l., 253 p. 22 cm.

"A selected bibliography of modern criticism": p. 245.

Metaphor and the tradition.--Wit and high seriousness.--Metaphysical poetry and propaganda art.--Symbolist poetry and the ivory tower.--The modern poet and the tradition.--Frost, MacLeish and Auden.--The waste land: critique of the myth.--Yeats: the poet as myth-maker.--A note on the death of Elizabethan tragedy.--Notes for a revised history of English poetry.


Poetry--History and criticism.

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