Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry /

The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky argues that this gloomy d...

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Main Author: Pinsky, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Series:University Center for Human Values series.
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