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Article: The Title to the Poem
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- Comparative Literature
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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THE TITLE TO THE POEM. By Anne Ferry. Stanford. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 312 p.
The title of The Title to the Poem might seem to suggest a topic of narrow and transitory interest: the few words that customarily precede a poem and signal the reader that he is about to encounter, say, an ode; or that what follows may best he understood as being addressed to a bird: or that the poet's subject is the shepherd's lot-something, in any case, that the reader would probably see for himself once he he began to read. Exceptional individual titles have always drawn remark, and there do exist (here and there) essays about thc significance of its standard practice, but despite John ...