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Passion and Precision contains twenty essays on a range of major medieval and modern English and Irish poets. The first part consists of three chapters on Chaucer, including a substantial new study of Troilus and Criseyde, four on Chaucer's great contemporary the Pearl-poet, and one comparing the two poets. The core of the second part is six chapters on T. S. Eliot, three of them pioneering explorations of his poetic language. They are preceded by three on Hopkins, Shelley and Yeats (includin.

Title Passion and precision : collected essays on english poetry from geoffrey chaucer to geoffrey hill / by A. V. C. Schmidt.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Creation Date 2015
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- CHAPTER XI -- CHAPTER XII -- CHAPTER XIII -- CHAPTER XIV -- CHAPTER XV -- CHAPTER XVI -- CHAPTER XVII -- CHAPTER XVIII -- CHAPTER XIX -- CHAPTER XX -- NOTE ON THE EPIGRAPHS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS -- SELECT LEXICAL INDEX.
Extent 1 online resource (476 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010716799705171
MARC RECORDS
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