What kind of truth does modern poetry offer? Michael Hamburger's approach to this question ranges over European and American poetry since Baudelaire and the result is one of the best introductions available to twentieth-century poetry and its antecedents. Stressing the tensions and conflicts in and behind the work of almost every major poet of the period, Hamburger's non-partisan approach and practitioner's appreciation of the aesthetic problems ensure that the many different possibilities open to poets since Baudelaire are lucidly and sympathetically discussed.
- ISBN10 0156913801
- ISBN13 9780156913805
- Publish Date 1 March 1971 (first published 15 January 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 September 2021
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English