Revaluation Tradition and Development in English Poetry

Published

1972

Publisher

Penguin

ISBN-13

9780140214895

ISBN-10

0140214895

Pages

254

Format

Paperback

Language

English

A study of tradition and development in English poetry from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. The author discusses first the 'line of wit' that sprang from Jonson and Donne, and then devotes a chapter each to Milton's verse, Pope, the Augustan tradition, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. These revaluations, which are marked by that profound sense of the creative force of great literature that informs all Dr. Leavis' work, have taken their place among the classics of modern literary criticism.