Modern poetry and the tradition - Brooks, Cleanth 1906-. (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1939)
Metaphor and the tradition. --Wit and high seriousness. --Metaphysical poetry and propaganda art. --Symbolist poetry and the ivory tower. --The modern poet and the tradition. --Frost, MacLaish, and Auden. --The waste land: critique of the m yth. --Yeats: the poet as mythmaker. --A note on the death of Elizabeth tragedy. --Notes for a revised history of English poet.
Keywords: Poetry -- History and criticism