The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750sOUP Oxford, 2001 M08 9 - 306 páginas Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia. |
Contenido
The Birth of the Modern Poet | 30 |
Making a National Body of Poetry | 70 |
ScholarGypsies | 113 |
Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge | 170 |
Men Women and American Classrooms | 223 |
The Poets Work | 267 |
Index | 285 |
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The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s Robert Crawford Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s Robert Crawford Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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Página 9 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Página 143 - And air-swept lindens yield Their scent, and rustle down their perfumed showers Of bloom on the bent grass where I am laid, And bower me from the August sun with shade ; And the eye travels down to Oxford's towers. And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book...
Página 5 - And first, truly, to all them that, professing learning, inveigh against poetry may justly be objected that they go very near to ungratefulness to seek to deface that which, in the noblest nations and languages that are known, hath been the first lightgiver to ignorance...
Página 55 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day!
Página 150 - ... and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and rawness, has been at the bottom of our attachment to so many beaten causes, of our opposition to so many triumphant movements.
Página 144 - The workings of men's brains, And they can bind them to what thoughts they will. " And I," he said, " the secret of their art, When fully learn'd, will to the world impart ; But it needs heaven-sent moments for this skill.
Página 140 - There are moods when one is prone to believe that, in these last days, no longer by "clear spring or shady grove," no more upon any Pindus or Parnassus, or by the side of any Castaly, are the true and lawful haunts of the poetic powers: but, we could believe it, if anywhere, in the blank and desolate streets, and upon the solitary bridges of the midnight city, where Guilt is, and wild Temptation, and the dire Compulsion of what has once been done— there...
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Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry, Anarchy, Abstraction Stephen Collis Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |