The Enemy's Country

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. Paperback. Like New. Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt… Read more about this item

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0198112165

Stanford University Press, January 1995. Paper Back. New. Hill incorporates the life and works of such seventeenth-century writers as Donne, Dryden, Hobbes and Izaak Walton into trenchant discussions of how language can embody faith, and how the poetic imagination copes with the tension between public politics and private lyricism and between economics and solitude.

Stanford University Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. A few pages have inkmarks.

Hardback. New. A collection of essays examining circumstances and conditions of poets' work. With Dryden as a central figure, the author describes the perplexities and felicity of genius in writers such as Donne, Hobbes and Marvell.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.