TY - BOOK AU - Pottle,Frederick Albert TI - The idiom of poetry, AV - PN1055 .P68 1946 U1 - 808.1 PY - 1946/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University KW - Poetry N1 - "This book in its original form consisted of six lectures ... delivered at Cornell University in ... 1941 namely, the Messenger lectures on the evolution of civilization."--p. [vi]; The idiom of poetry: Shifts of sensibility. The doctrine of critical relativism. The critic's responsibility. What is poetry? Pure poetry in theory and practice. Emergent idiom.--Other essays: An alternative beginning and a summary. Dogma, science, and poetry. The moral evaluation of literature.--Notes and references (p. [211]-234) UR - http://www.archive.org/details/idiomofpoetry00pott UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL6500415M ER -