Poets and Critics, Their Means and Meanings

Including Essays on Browning, Ruskin, Stevens, Heaney, and Others

• Author(s): A. B. Crowder,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_10: 0773492682
  ISBN_13: 9780773492684
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Criticism & Theory , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... Including essays on Browning, Ruskin, Stevens, Heaney, and others, this volume begins with an argument that poetry has a job to do: it is one of man's basic tools for keeping himself in touch with the world. The next essay confronts one of the enduring problems of interpretation: how do you know your interpretation is correct?