TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abad, Gemino H.,
TI  - Our scene so fair: Filipino poetry in English, 1905 to 1955 
SN  - 9789715425599
AV  - PR 9550.2 .Ab13 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - University of the Philippines Press
KW  - Philippine poetry (English)
N1  - Includes bibliography (p.225-231)
N2  -  Amador T. Daguio) or a significant aspect of our poetic tradition (patriotic verses;  the "Filipino Romantic"). The principal consideration is the poems themselves from a perspective that regards form as the matter of art and content as the matter of interpretation. Through all the essays, there are two basic assumptions: that the poem is work of imagination in and through language, and that one's country is what one's imagination owes its allegiance to; Our Scene So Fair consists of nine critical essays which seek to clarify the poetic tradition  that our poets in English have established over the first half of the last century. After a historical overview of transformative phrases in the course of our poetry since 1905 to the present, each essay focuses on an individual poet ( Fernando M. Maramag
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