G Douglas Atkins: 3 books
Strategy and Purpose in T. S. Eliot’s Major Poems
Language, Hermeneutics, and Ancient Truth in “New Verse”
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot's most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins' new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being understood, putting-in-other-words, and, in Eliot's own words, 'restoring/ With a new verse the ancient...
On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility
Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to “the responsible poet.” Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes...
Geoffrey Hartman
Criticism as Answerable Style
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
`The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts "that they might answer him."'
Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not...