This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.
Originally published in 1939.
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- ISBN13 9780807803035
- Publish Date 30 January 1939
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English