Defending the Intellectual Life in Early Modern to Postmodern Times : an Anthology of Literary Apologies.

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DEFENDING THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN EARLY MODERN TO POST MODERN TIMES: An Anthology of Literary Apologies; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One -- Defenses in The Early Modern Period; Chapter Two -- Defenses in the Neoclassical Period; Chapter Three -- Defenses in the Romantic Period; Chapter Four -- Defenses in the Victorian Period; Chapter Five -- Defenses in the Modern Period; Chapter Six -- Defenses in the Postmodern Period; Bibliography; Index.

The book analyzes various writings by poets and cultural critics on the topic of being an intellectual. Figures like Pope, Sidney, Milton, Eliot, and even contemporaries like Christopher Hitchens are covered. The first few deal with what poetry is, and the latter more up to date essays try to explain intellectual life in modern times. Present-day readers might find some of these defenses to be obscure, but this book breaks down what critics meant even during the Early Modern Period, and the Renaissance. British writers from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Hitchens use defenses of literature to.

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