Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities.
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Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities.
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Like New. Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities. Paperback. xiv, 153pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.
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New. Hill incorporates the life and works of such seventeenth-century writers as Donne, Dryden, Hobbes and Izaak Walton into trenchant discussions of how language can embody faith, and how the poetic imagination copes with the tension between public politics and private lyricism and between economics and solitude.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Octavo. xiv, 153pp. Topedge trifle foxed, still easily fine in lightly worn, very near fine dust jacket with a faint diagonal crease on the lower panel.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Octavo. xiv, 153pp. Faint label shadow on front fly, spine base very gently bumped, near fine in lightly worn, near fine dust jacket with a bit of creasing at the spine base.
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