A Test of Poetry
Louis Zukofsky(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 8. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-041-01536-9 (ISBN)
Description
A Test of Poetry (1932) is a comparative study of poetry from Homer to the twentieth century. By giving several translations of the same passage from Homer, an elegy of Ovid and lines from Herrick which read like an adaptation of Ovid, or a fifteenth century poem about a cock and a recent poem about chickens, and so on, a means for judging the values of poetic writing is established. The book also has a comparative chronological chart, including a summary of critical views.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Adult education, General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-01536-9 (9781041015369)
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Content
1. Comparisons 2. More Comparisons - and Considerations 3. Further Comparisons