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Overview
A book that welcomes the energy of the ancestors, this author declares that the earliest ancestors speak to some poets through voices, which tell them the way things are to go on this earth. The voices, she says, do not come from the supernatural world, but are ancient human codes.Editorials
Library Journal
This scholarly book starts with the supposition that ``Human beings need inspired poetry, whether we like it or not.'' The author defines such poetry as ``poetry originating in urgent, commanding voices'' and goes on to discuss the ethical content of the inspired poetry of Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Smart, Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Coleridge, Arnold, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, and Yeats. Although Weissman's argument is not always convincing, some interesting ideas are presented, and readers are given a new approach to some of the most valued literature in the Western tradition.-- Jessica Grim, Oberlin Coll., Lib., OhioBook Details
Published
June 1, 1993
Publisher
Hanover : University Press of New England ; c1993.
Pages
360
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780819562654