Why Write Poetry?: Modern Poets Defending Their ArtFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 316 стор. Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles, they, like many of their contemporaries, have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse. At first glance, this seems an odd gesture, given that the readers and writers of poetry are those who least need convincing of poetry's worthiness. But questioning poetry in verse is a form of lyric introspection that is productive and well-suited for a modern poet. characterized as one of indifference, defense helps these authors make a claim for poetry's cultural relevance, as well as for its private profit. Jeannine Johnson is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University. |
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... Stevens , W. H. Auden . Adrienne Rich , and Geoffrey Hill . Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles , they , like many of their contem- poraries , have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse . At first glance ...
... Stevens , W. H. Auden . Adrienne Rich , and Geoffrey Hill . Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles , they , like many of their contem- poraries , have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse . At first glance ...
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... Stevens's Paralogical Defense 17 3656 26 101 4. Like a Poetry Lesson : W. H. Auden's Ritual Repetitions of Apology 151 5. Not How to Write Poetry but Wherefore : Adrienne Rich and the Ethics of Poetry 187 6. Inspired Guesswork ...
... Stevens's Paralogical Defense 17 3656 26 101 4. Like a Poetry Lesson : W. H. Auden's Ritual Repetitions of Apology 151 5. Not How to Write Poetry but Wherefore : Adrienne Rich and the Ethics of Poetry 187 6. Inspired Guesswork ...
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... AMONG THE RUINS : Poems 2000- 2004 by Adrienne Rich . Copyright © 2004 by Adrienne Rich . Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. From THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS by Wallace Stevens ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9.
... AMONG THE RUINS : Poems 2000- 2004 by Adrienne Rich . Copyright © 2004 by Adrienne Rich . Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. From THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS by Wallace Stevens ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9.
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... Stevens , copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens . Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf , a division of Random House , Inc. From OPUS POSTHUMOUS by Wallace Stevens , edited by Milton J. Bates , copyright ...
... Stevens , copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens . Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf , a division of Random House , Inc. From OPUS POSTHUMOUS by Wallace Stevens , edited by Milton J. Bates , copyright ...
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... Stevens L : CPWS : The Collected Poems ( 1954 ) . New York : Vintage , 1990 . Letters of Wallace Stevens . Edited by Holly Stevens . New York : Vintage , 1966 . NA : OP : The Necessary Angel : Essays on Reality and the Imagi- nation ...
... Stevens L : CPWS : The Collected Poems ( 1954 ) . New York : Vintage , 1990 . Letters of Wallace Stevens . Edited by Holly Stevens . New York : Vintage , 1966 . NA : OP : The Necessary Angel : Essays on Reality and the Imagi- nation ...
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You Shall Dwell Upon Superlatives The Prose Tradition of Apologetics | 26 |
This is the New Heresy HD Poetry and War | 56 |
We Like Poetry Because We Do Wallace Stevenss Paralogical Defense | 101 |
Like a Poetry Lesson W H Audens Ritual Repetitions of Apology | 151 |
Not How to Write Poetry but Wherefore Adrienne Rich and the Ethics of Poetry | 187 |
Inspired Guesswork Geoffrey Hill Poetry and Prophecy | 237 |
The Role of Society in the Artist Some Reflections and Predictions | 272 |
Notes | 282 |
Bibliography | 304 |
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