{"product_id":"2026200015431-secondhand-poetry-direct-and-oblique","title":"Poetry Direct And Oblique","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of feeling and form, E.M.W. Tillyard's Poetry Direct and Oblique presents one of the twentieth century's most illuminating frameworks for understanding how poetry communicates — arguing that verse operates along a spectrum, from the transparently direct, which states its meaning plainly, to the richly oblique, which achieves its power through indirection, imagery, and layered suggestion. Tillyard draws on a sweeping range of examples from English literature — from medieval balladry to the great Romantics — to illustrate how these two modes of poetic expression are not opposites but complementary forces that, in the finest poetry, work in dynamic tension with one another.\n\nA foundational text in mid-century literary criticism, the work reflects Tillyard's characteristic clarity of prose and his gift for making complex aesthetic questions accessible without sacrificing intellectual rigour. As a Cambridge scholar who also produced landmark studies of Milton and the Elizabethan world picture, Tillyard brings to this volume the same authoritative, historically grounded sensibility that defined his wider critical project. For anyone who has ever wondered why a particular line of verse resonates long after the page is turned, this study offers an answer that is at once scholarly and deeply personal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203221397723,"sku":"2026200015431-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ac191cde-2c89-4aad-895f-f1c79d3cc24f.png?v=1788146023","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015431-secondhand-poetry-direct-and-oblique","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}