Melodious guile : fictive pattern in poetic language
John Hollander (Author)
Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" of poetry, explaining how poems frame parables about themselves. Hollander considers works by Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, chiefly, plus a range of other poets including Chaucer, Keats, Rossetti, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden. He also presents certain poems of his own, showing how they anticipate and exemplify the observations contained in this volume
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 262 pages ; 25 cm
9780300042931, 9780300049046, 0300042930, 0300049048
17805901
"Some of these essays originally appeared, often in different form, in other places"--Preface