Author: Pottle, Frederick A.
Title: The Idiom of Poetry
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1946. 2nd revised ed, orig. cloth. 22x14cm, xx, 234 pp,, Whitney Balliet's copy, with his name ( & "Ithaca 1950") inked on flyleaf. A small tear to the margin of one page.. Flyleaves browned, VG.Dustwrapper torn,chipped and marked. dust ¶ Contents: The Idiom of Poetry: Shifts of Sensibility; The Doctrine of Critical Relativism; The Critic's Responsability; What is Poetry?; Pure Poetry in Theory & Practice; Emergent Idiom; Other Essays: An Alternative Beginning and a Summary; Dogma, Science, and Poetry; The Moral Evaluation of Literature.

Keywords: Literary criticism, Modern Poetry, Idiom, Poetics, , , , ,