American Poetry (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Robert Bly
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Tradition, Mythology or myths, Revolutionaries, Nature, Psychology or psychologists, Literature, Religion, Individuality, Spiritualism, Metaphysics, Romanticism, Aesthetics
It is no coincidence that the greatest literary critics in the tradition of English letters were also first-rate creative writers, if not geniuses, for the experience of creation fosters a thorough understanding of literary art. Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and T. S. Eliot left major and lasting contributions to the national literature of their respective ages. The tradition of writing criticism to elucidate one’s own literary practice, in its fullest sense, dates back to Dryden in the late seventeenth century. The first English...
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