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Author Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994, editor

Title Understanding poetry / edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
Edition Fourth edition
Published New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1976]
©1976

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 MELB  821.007 B87325/U/1976  AVAILABLE
Description xxii, 602 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Poetry as a Way of Saying. 2. Dramatic Situation. 3. Description: Images, Modes, and Attitudes. 4. Tone. 5. Analogical Language: Metaphor and Symbol. 6. Theme, Meaning, and Dramatic Structure. 7. Applications: The Poet Looks at a Bird. 8. Poems for Study. 9. Representative Poems of our Time. Appendix A: How Poems Came About -- Intention and Meaning. Appendix B: Metrics. Appendix C: Metaphor and Symbol -- Compared and Contrasted
Summary Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Subject American poetry.
English poetry.
Poetry -- Study and teaching.
Author Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
LC no. 75025539
ISBN 0030769809