Exploring Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Rosenthal, M. L., and A. J. M. Smith.
Exploring Poetry.
- Published
- New York: Macmillan, 1955.
- Physical Description
- lxi, 756 pp.
- Description
- Introduces "the study of poetry," suitable for classroom use. A section on "Implied Argument: Irony and Ambiguity" includes a reading of PardT 6.728-33 that suggests a "profound idea wells up in this passage--the idea that we cannot conceive of bringing an end to death without at the same time destroying the principle of the life-cycle here symbolized by Mother Earth," even though Chaucer leaves ambiguous "just who the old man is." The volume also includes for further study excerpts from LGWP-F (the Balade, 249-69), the end of TC (5.1835-48, 1863-69), and the description of Alysoun in MilT 1.3221-70) .
- Contributor
- Smith, A. J. M.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
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