UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » English » EN0469 » POETRY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
Model: EN0469
Authors: O'DONOGHUE, B.
Publishers: MISCELLANEOUS
Price: $2,350.00JMD
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this -- such as Shelley's that the poets "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," and that poetry is "a higher truth."