Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past

by Charles I . Armstrong (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $149.42

  Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past.