Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to higher powers in poetry from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and how an awareness of them can illuminate our reading of the poetry of any age. Andrew Welsh is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Originally published in ...
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Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to higher powers in poetry from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and how an awareness of them can illuminate our reading of the poetry of any age. Andrew Welsh is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. ix, 276pp. Poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his light marginalia throughout, bumping to the spine ends, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with light soiling to the front panel and some nicking to the spine ends and extremities.
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Near Fine in Very good+ jacket. Inscribed by Welsh! Presumed first edition, 1978, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 276pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, top edge of text block foxed. DJ VG+ with rubbing, mild edgewear.
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