The Man from Porlock: Engagements, 1944-1981 (Princeton Series of Collected Essays) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691013969 ISBN 13: 9780691013961

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1982

Synopsis

These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world.

Originally published in 1982.

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About this title

About the Author:

Weiss is emeritus professor of English and creative writing at Princeton University and coeditor with his wife of the Quarterly Review of Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0691013969
• ISBN 13: 9780691013961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320