The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry.(Book review)

From: Wordsworth Circle | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

John Powell Ward, The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry.

(Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Pr., 2004) 496 + $80

John Powell Ward opens The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry with a question: what are poems made of? His answer and thesis: the physical medium of poetry is the alphabet. In the process of developing that thesis, Ward elaborates a complete abecedarial poetic theory, demonstrates its interpretive power in analyses of five poets' works, including Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, and champions the collected letters of the ...

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