Lives of the Poets
- List Price: $35.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 03/01/2002
Schmidt's ambitious retelling of the story of English poetry is fueled by an infectious enthusiasm. Each century is brought vividly to life, from English poetry's humble beginning in the turbulent, Plague-ridden fourteenth century, to the court poetry of the fifteenth, the studied, Europeanized lyricism of the sixteenth, the political and religious fervor of the seventeenth and the cruel coffee-shop satire of the eighteenth century. With the nineteenth century came the dawn of Romanticism and its retreat before the new scientific rationalism, followed in our own century by the two world wars, with Modernism strung between them.
Schmidt speaks for a common language: it is the language of poetry which unites people across the ages and across continents. Skeptical of modern theory (but not of modern scholarship), Schmidt avoids the baffling complexities of fashionable jargon and instead grounds each poet's achievement in his or her life.
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