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The Poet and His Audience
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The Poet and His Audience Hardcover - 1984 - 1st Edition

by Ian Jack


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How far, and in what respects, is a poet's work influenced by the kind of audience for which he writes? The question is crucial to our understanding of how great poems came to be written, yet it has rarely been addressed in a systematic study. In this fascinating and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden, Pope, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, and Yeats - and has traced the career of each to discover the nature and the extent of their readers' influence on their poetry. He shows that poets living in different periods and different cultural milieux addressed themselves to very differently constituted audiences (though all tended to have a close circle of highly sensitive friends on whom they could first test their work in private), and indicates how their need to adapt to the prevailing conditions shaped the nature of their poetry.

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  • Title The Poet and His Audience
  • Author Ian Jack
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1984
  • ISBN 9780521260343 / 0521260345
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects English poetry - History and criticism, Authors and readers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83026238
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.009
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