The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry has interacted with the public-private divide since the middle of the twentieth century. In their approach to this central but contested aspect of modern life, the essays suggest new ways not only of approaching a poem but of thinking about what gives a poem its linguistic, textual, and performative singularity. The collection discusses a wide range of poets, including Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Ted Hughes.…mehr
The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry has interacted with the public-private divide since the middle of the twentieth century. In their approach to this central but contested aspect of modern life, the essays suggest new ways not only of approaching a poem but of thinking about what gives a poem its linguistic, textual, and performative singularity. The collection discusses a wide range of poets, including Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Ted Hughes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Former English professor Emily Taylor Merriman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Adrian Grafe and Emily Taylor Merriman I. STATING THE CASE 1. Poetry as "Open Diagnosis" Marc Porée II. STRICTLY PUBLIC? 2. Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry Robert Archambeau 3. Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate: The Beast and the Sovereign Laurel Peacock 4. R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Threshold Daniel Szabo 5. Performing, Transforming, and Changing the Question: Patience Agbabi-Poet Enough! Catherine Murphy 6. Strictly Private? Stephen Romer's "Les Portes de la Nuit" Adrian Grafe III. HEANEY AND THE PRIVATENESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION 7. Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the Birch Grove of Daniella Jancsó 8. "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: Toward the Configuration of an Event Form Pascale Guibert 9. "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": The Fusion of the Private and the Public in Seamus Heaney's Poetics Torsten Caeners IV. THE NORTH, THE NATION, AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE 10. "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison Cécile Marshall 11. Private Voice and Public Discourse: A Poetics of Northern Dialect Claire Hélie 12. Public or Private Nation: Poetic Form and National Consciousness in the Poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill Carole Birkan-Berz 13. Geoffrey Hill: "A public nuisance" Emily Taylor Merriman V. TAKING STOCK : FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO RITUAL 14. The Public Intimacy of the Poetry of Sorrow Catherine Phillips About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Adrian Grafe and Emily Taylor Merriman I. STATING THE CASE 1. Poetry as "Open Diagnosis" Marc Porée II. STRICTLY PUBLIC? 2. Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry Robert Archambeau 3. Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate: The Beast and the Sovereign Laurel Peacock 4. R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Threshold Daniel Szabo 5. Performing, Transforming, and Changing the Question: Patience Agbabi-Poet Enough! Catherine Murphy 6. Strictly Private? Stephen Romer's "Les Portes de la Nuit" Adrian Grafe III. HEANEY AND THE PRIVATENESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION 7. Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the Birch Grove of Daniella Jancsó 8. "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: Toward the Configuration of an Event Form Pascale Guibert 9. "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": The Fusion of the Private and the Public in Seamus Heaney's Poetics Torsten Caeners IV. THE NORTH, THE NATION, AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE 10. "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison Cécile Marshall 11. Private Voice and Public Discourse: A Poetics of Northern Dialect Claire Hélie 12. Public or Private Nation: Poetic Form and National Consciousness in the Poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill Carole Birkan-Berz 13. Geoffrey Hill: "A public nuisance" Emily Taylor Merriman V. TAKING STOCK : FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO RITUAL 14. The Public Intimacy of the Poetry of Sorrow Catherine Phillips About the Contributors Index
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