Poets ThinkingPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. 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. |
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... structure of a perspicuous argument , the structure of a poem may be anything but transparent , at least at first glance . In short , the relation of poetry to thought is an uneasy one . Some law other than the conduct of an argument is ...
... structure to structure , rendering graphically the mobility of mind as it operates at full tilt . Let me say a little about this self - description of for so I see it - Pope by Pope . Detached from all reference to his own biography ...
... structure Yeats's work in Hera- clitean fashion , as they die each other's life , live each other's death . But the nature of such antinomies is intensely queried in the later work . In the retrospective work , above all , they take on ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope Thinking | 10 |
Walt Whitman Thinking | 37 |
Copyright | |
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