The value of poetry /

"Poems spurn skimming. They entreat our full attention. A distracted age such as ours, then, seems an unpropitious time for poetry. Dense, oblique, relatively lengthy, or difficult poems - and at least one of this quartet of terms fits many of the poems in the modern and contemporary canon - as...

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Main Author: Falci, Eric (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
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Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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