Sound
and Form
in Modern
Poetry
by Harvey Gross
346 pages
$8.50
IntrigUes:
studlas 01 tha Chan·kuO Ts'a
bY d.l. crump.dr.
224
pages
$6.50
The Romantic
Fairy Tale:
Seeds of Surrealism
224
pages
$3 .95
by Marianne Thalmann
This book presents an objective critical
basis for measuring the achievements of
the most outstanding poets of modern
times. It points the way to an understand–
ing of the techniques ;:Ivailable to the
modern poet and makes clear the relation
of a poem's meaning to its sound. Anyone
interested in poetry will want to give this
book a close, thorough reading.
is an analysis of the "Chan-kuo Ts'e"
("Intrigues of the Warring States"), long
considered an important source of early
Chinese history. But Professor Crump
demonstrates how fictional persuasion
was grafted to historical fact. The speech–
es in the "Intrigues," like those of Greek
Classical historians, " are models of what
should have been offered at certain his–
torical occasions."
examines the most important German "literary
fairy tales" of the late 18th and early 19th
centuries- the works of Tieck, Wackenroder.
Novalis, Brentano, and Hoffmann. It tells why
these writers, disillusioned with life during and
after the Napoleonic wars, turned away from
rational experi ence to seek a deeper truth than
"the enlightened realism of a dying culture,"
a -world in which "the tricks of fate and the bi–
zarre complications of life dissolve in laughter."
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