Counting at Dusk (Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends)
- Author / Editor
- Scarry, Elaine.
Counting at Dusk (Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends)
- Published
- Elaine Scarry, ed. Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 1-36.
- Description
- Explores why the world is "newly alert to its need for poetry" at the end of each century, including comments on Chaucer's writing of CT at the end of the fourteenth.
- Alternative Title
- Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General