Poetry, poets, readers
making things happen
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100199251134
- ISBN-139780199251131
- Library of Congress Control Number2001055732
- OCLC Control Number48515998
- Better World Books9780199251131
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL3955229M
Classifications
- DDC821.009
- LCCPR502 .R52 2002
- LCCPR502.R+
and 1 more
- LCCPR502 .R63 2002
Description
"Poetry, Poets, Readers is a defence of poetry against the protective moves which claim that poets never lie because they never affirm, or that their poems exist in a separate 'world'. These much reiterated manoeuvres for safeguarding poetry by banishing it from an active role in life can paradoxically go hand in hand with a poet's yearning for the authority of a legislator. Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Edward Lear, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on question-forms in poems, the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets, the book sets out a fresh model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers - one which allows the historical fact of poems having made things happen to be itself happening."--Jacket.
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