The Uses of PoetryCUP Archive, 20.07.1978 - 246 Seiten This is an account of the part played by poetry in the life of man from earliest times to the present. Older than prose, it was the vehicle for his technology, history, philosophy and science; it helped him feel at home in his environment; it was the social element between him and his fellows. Mr Thompson explores these many facets in the earlier chapters of his book, and then goes on to consider the impact of printing when in his view poetry became subtler but ceased to be a popular possession. However, as Mr Thompson shows, poetry could still be of value in helping people to cope with the strains of living, in assimilating the implications of vast new fields of knowledge, and in keeping alive the idea of humanity in a dehumanising age. |
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Inhalt
In the beginning | 19 |
Rites bards ballads | 43 |
Maid of all work | 70 |
Patriotism and politics | 112 |
Dissent and protest | 137 |
The printed poem | 173 |
Uses of poetry | 194 |
Bibliography | 226 |
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A. L. Lloyd ancient animals audience ballads bards carol Cecil Sharp century B.C. Chartist Christian church civilisation complaints consciousness culture dance death developed E. K. Chambers early Edwin Muir emotions England English entertainment epic example experience expressed feeling folk song Greek heart human hymns imagination individual Ireland kind kings language literary literature living London lyric magic means medieval memory mind minstrels moral Muir myth nature never oral poetry peasants play poems poetic political poor popular pre-literate primitive printed produced prose protest R. S. Thomas readers recited religious rhyme rhythm rhythmic ritual seems sense sermon Shakespeare shaman singer singing social society Song of Roland songs speech spells spirit sung survival symbols T. S. Eliot things thought tradition truth verse voice W. H. Auden Willa Muir words Wordsworth writing wrote