TY - BOOK AU - Clausen,Christopher TI - The place of poetry: two centuries of an art in crisis SN - 9780813162447 AV - PS303 .C57 U1 - 821/.009 19 PY - 1981/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - American poetry KW - History and criticism KW - English poetry KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Literature and society KW - English-speaking countries KW - Poésie américaine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Poésie anglaise KW - 19e siècle KW - 20e siècle KW - Littérature et société KW - États-Unis KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Anglophonie KW - POETRY KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Rhyme or Reason; TWO: Poetry as Revelation; THREE: The Land of Lost Content; FOUR: The Palgrave Version; FIVE: New Bottles; SIX: Grecian Thoughts in the Home Fields; SEVEN: The Place of Poetry; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad audience, the audience began to dwindle toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the decline accel UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=938690 ER -