The Redress of Poetry
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ISBN: 0374248532 / Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1995
Examines the works of a range of poets to discuss poetry's ability to redress spiritual balance as a counterweight to oppressive forces
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The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on poetry's special ability to rectify spiritual balance as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces, in a collection of ten lectures on the work of such diverse poets as Christopher Marlowe, John Clare, Oscar Wilde, and Elizabeth Bishop.
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