The Poetry of Indifference – From the Romantics to the Rubaiyat Gray Hardback

The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubaiyat\nby Erik Gray\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Erik Gray\nTitle: The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubaiyat\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press\nPublication year: 2005\nEdition: New\nISBN-13: 9781558494909\nISBN-10: 1558494901\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIndifference is a common, even indispensable element of human experience. But it is rare in poetry, which is traditionally defined by its direct opposition to indifference-by its heightened emotion, consciousness, and effort. This definition applies especially to English poets of the nineteenth century, heirs to an age that predicated aesthetics .