The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading
- ISBN-10
- 1589880811
- ISBN-13
- 9781589880818
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books
- Author
- Reuben Arthur Brower
Description
In this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to attending to the encompassing ways in which the writing achieves its greatness. "Not only does Brower begin his book with a lyric, but he deliberately chooses a very short one indeed, as if to show how much can be said about the smallest of poetic 'figures' looked at closely. The poem is "The Sick Rose", one of William Blake's best-known songs of experience ... Brower's task is to show how the poem is 'imaginatively organized,' by which he means that, to read it, we must sense the 'extraordinary interconnectedness among a relatively large number of different items of experience." -- From the Foreword by William H Pritchard
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