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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... sense " American " poets , though together they complicate an idea of what this designation might mean . The group includes Stevens , a poet who spent almost no time outside the United States : he left only for a short camping excursion ...
... sense " American " poets , though together they complicate an idea of what this designation might mean . The group includes Stevens , a poet who spent almost no time outside the United States : he left only for a short camping excursion ...
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... sense that it has issued literally , if not imaginatively , from the United States.5 As to the question of Hill's contempora- neity : his strongest imaginative attachment is to the historical pe- riod that precedes or coincides with ...
... sense that it has issued literally , if not imaginatively , from the United States.5 As to the question of Hill's contempora- neity : his strongest imaginative attachment is to the historical pe- riod that precedes or coincides with ...
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... sense of superiority . ) At one point in " New Year Letter , " the speaker stands in a courtroom before " compassionate ... questioners " who are dedicated to meting out a literal form of poetic justice . Although the poet is granted ...
... sense of superiority . ) At one point in " New Year Letter , " the speaker stands in a courtroom before " compassionate ... questioners " who are dedicated to meting out a literal form of poetic justice . Although the poet is granted ...
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... sense , love and poetry stand together , opposed to mercantile interests . But even if poetry is paired with love , language's limitations are its own and love can- not compensate for them , as he makes clear in his prose poem ...
... sense , love and poetry stand together , opposed to mercantile interests . But even if poetry is paired with love , language's limitations are its own and love can- not compensate for them , as he makes clear in his prose poem ...
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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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Why Write Poetry?: Modern Poets Defending Their Art Jeannine Johnson Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2007 |
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