Substance of Shadow

John Hollander, Kenneth Gross

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Substance of Shadow

2016
English poetry, history and criticismAmerican poetry, history and criticismShades and shadows in literatureEnglish poetryHistory and criticismAmerican 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.

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