Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen - Couverture rigide

Robinson, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199251134 ISBN 13 : 9780199251131

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Robinson Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 re-iterated manoeuvres for safe-guarding 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, 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. Peter Robinson, himself an award-winning poet, explores what we do by imagining when we read or write poems. In describing how poetry, poets, and readers make things happen the poet offers us an invitation and implies a promise. Taking up the one, we find out how to keep the other.

Revue de presse

Peter Robinson has done wonderful things with Searle's narrow categories. (Modern Language Review)

Robinson's reading of poems...show subtlety, a wide and always appropriate range of reference, and an understated persuasiveness that makes this book a valuable contribution to the 'conflictual culture of negotiation and evolution'(p.108) that the author himself describes criticism to be. (Modern Language Review)

Robinson's critical senses are fine-tuned ... this results in some bracing analyses of poems, and the ways of happening they embody ... His criticism insists on the really important questions to which only the best poety is equal. This is to reclaim for poetry the seriousness and centrality it demands. (Peter MacDonald, Times Literary Supplement)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199251134
• ISBN 13: 9780199251131
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216