Reading Poetry, Writing Genre : English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship

the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry. [Publisher's Text]

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