Research Catalog

Title

Singing masters : poets in English, 1500 to the present / Russell Fraser.

Author

Fraser, Russell A.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Description

viii, 261 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Singing Masters is a book for connoisseurs of poetry. It spans five centuries of verse in English but is in no way a literary history or encyclopedic survey of the genre. It is instead a celebration of the poetry that has most delighted, engaged, and challenged one man in his long and distinguished career as literary scholar and critic."--BOOK JACKET.
• "The title of the book comes from Yeats, a poet who wanted his predecessors to be the "singing masters" of his soul. Similarly, Russell Fraser pays homage to his predecessors among the major critics. He doesn't read his poets in a vacuum, but locates them in their lives and times while focusing on the work itself. In this book, the poem is the thing, and the basic questions explored are language-centered: what kind of poem is before the reader and whether and why it succeeds."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• English poetry > History and criticism
• English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

I. The Poetry of Innuendoes. 1. Shakespeare at Sonnets. 2. Sex and Science in Donne. 3. Herrick among the Goths. 4. Wordsworth Pro and Con. 5. Frost in the Waste Land -- II. The Poetry of Inflections. 6. Jonson's Small Latin and Less Greek. 7. Sidney for Moderns. 8. Spenser in the Minotaur's Cave. 9. Milton's Two Poets. 10. Rationalism and the Discursive Style. 11. What Is Augustan Poetry? 12. Remembering Shelley -- III. The Hymn in the Throat. 13. Herbert at Play in the Fields of the Lord. 14. Marvell's Tin Ear. 15. Arnold between Worlds. 16. How Yeats Came into His Strength.

ISBN

0472110039 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98049294

OCLC

ocm40545373

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries