Cover of Substance of Shadow

Book 2016

Substance of Shadow

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Published
2016
  • Shades and shadows in literature
  • English poetry
  • History and criticism
  • American poetry

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This text witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the 20th century.