The Poets And Their Critics (3 Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Chipped and worn with some minor damage along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on feps. Binding: Intact. Vol I & II - review copies.
What does it mean for a poet to be truly understood — and who gets to decide? The Poets and their Critics is a landmark three-volume series that traces the reception of English poetry from Chaucer's medieval verse to the modernist voices of the twentieth century, assembling the critical opinions of poets, scholars, and readers across the centuries. Volumes one and two, edited by Hugh Sykes Davies, chart the critical fortunes of poets from Chaucer to Collins and Blake to Browning respectively, while volume three, compiled by James Reeves, carries the tradition forward from Arnold to Auden. Together, the volumes form an indispensable archive of literary opinion, illustrating how each generation re-evaluates and reinterprets the poets who came before it. The editors present primary critical sources with scholarly precision, allowing readers to witness firsthand the evolving standards of taste, judgment, and aesthetic theory that shaped the English literary canon. This collection is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just the poets themselves, but the rich and often contentious critical conversation that surrounds them — a conversation that, as these volumes remind us, is never truly finished.
Author: Hugh Sykes Davies (Vols. 1 & 2), James Reeves (Vol. 3)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Hutchinson
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Chipped and worn with some minor damage along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on feps. Binding: Intact. Vol I & II - review copies.
What does it mean for a poet to be truly understood — and who gets to decide? The Poets and their Critics is a landmark three-volume series that traces the reception of English poetry from Chaucer's medieval verse to the modernist voices of the twentieth century, assembling the critical opinions of poets, scholars, and readers across the centuries. Volumes one and two, edited by Hugh Sykes Davies, chart the critical fortunes of poets from Chaucer to Collins and Blake to Browning respectively, while volume three, compiled by James Reeves, carries the tradition forward from Arnold to Auden. Together, the volumes form an indispensable archive of literary opinion, illustrating how each generation re-evaluates and reinterprets the poets who came before it. The editors present primary critical sources with scholarly precision, allowing readers to witness firsthand the evolving standards of taste, judgment, and aesthetic theory that shaped the English literary canon. This collection is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just the poets themselves, but the rich and often contentious critical conversation that surrounds them — a conversation that, as these volumes remind us, is never truly finished.