The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays

The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays

A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.

In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats, and Hazlitt. The centerpiece of the volume is Abramsâ€™s eloquent and incisive essay â€œThe Fourth Dimension of a Poemâ€ on the pleasure of reading poems aloud, accompanied by online recordings of Abramsâ€™s revelatory readings of poems such as William Wordsworthâ€™s â€œSurprised by Joy,â€ Alfred Tennysonâ€™s â€œHere Sleeps the Crimson Petal,â€ and Ernest Dowsonâ€™s â€œCynara.â€ The collection begins with a foreword by Abramsâ€™s former student Harold Bloom.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-08-27
Format Kindle eBook

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