Descriere: He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.
Page dim. 200 x 126 x 19
Weight: 280 grams
Autori: Heaney Seamus | Editura: Faber & Faber | Anul aparitiei: 1998 | ISBN: 9780571175376 | Numar de pagini: 240 | Categorie: History
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