The virtues of poetry /
James Longenbach.
- xi, 169 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.
The various light -- Best thought -- Less than everything -- Writing badly -- The door ajar -- Infinitude -- A fine excess -- Correct catastrophe -- The visible core -- The opposite of risk -- Poetry thinking -- All changed.
Twelve interconnected essays that describe the ways in which particular virtues are enacted in poetry.
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Poetry. Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Virtues in literature. Literaturtheorie. Lyrik.