By Richard Bradford
This introductory booklet takes the reader via literary historical past from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers person texts as paradigms that could either replicate and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford presents certain readings of person texts which emphasize their relation to literary background and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which bear in mind advancements in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems via Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning, Pound, Eliot, Carlos Williams, Auden, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.
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