{"product_id":"poetry-and-freedom-paul-oppenheimer-9781839981784","title":"Poetry and Freedom: Discoveries in Aesthetics, 1985-2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom. The range is broad, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Silent reading is shown as developing for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire into a fashionable way of reading, starting with the invention of the sonnet in the High Middle Ages. The social use of the word \"we,\" as when a society generalizes about itself, first appears in poetry in T.S. Eliot's \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.\" In Goethe's \"Roman Elegies\" anachronism becomes a literary device--also, it seems, for the first time--introducing a novel timelessness essential to modern affirmations of infinity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevealing questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom--what does the term actually mean?--are repeatedly tested against the accomplishments of major poets such as Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil, and their public yet intensely private originality. The result is a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, way of seeing literary and modern history, or an initiation into the more striking gift of aesthetic freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Oppenheimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839981784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839981784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Paul Oppenheimer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996078113023,"sku":"9781839981784","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_698d4ab9-da85-49dd-8b3d-95d59ca36178.jpg?v=1683339575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetry-and-freedom-paul-oppenheimer-9781839981784","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}