Robert Archambeau

Poetry and Uselessness (eBook, ePUB)

From Coleridge to Ashbery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful-and useful-idea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429558221
• Artikelnr.: 58521740

Autorenporträt

Robert Archambeau received his MFA in creative writing and PhD in English from Notre Dame and is a poet and critic. His books of poetry include Home and Variations (Salt, 2004), The Kafka Sutra (MadHat, 2015), and other collections and collaborations. His critical books include Laureates and Heretics (Notre Dame, 2010), The Poet Resigns (Akron, 2013), Inventions of a Barbarous Age (MadHat, 2016) and several edited collections. He teaches at Lake Forest College and has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Illinois Arts Council, and Swedish Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Aesthetic Autonomy and the Bourgeoisie: A Love Story 2 The Shadow of the
Dome of Pleasure: Coleridge and Aesthetic Autonomy 3 Tennyson as Aesthete
and Public Moralist 4 From the Cultured Minority to Minority Culture: The
Rise of the Aesthetes 5 Awakened from the Common Dream: Yeats and Aesthetic
Autonomy 6 Being Geniuses Together: Gertrude Stein in Paris 7 T.S. Eliot
and the Burial of an American Elite 8 W.H. Auden: Camp and Crisis 9 Ashbery
Adrift

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1 Aesthetic Autonomy and the Bourgeoisie: A Love Story 2 The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure: Coleridge and Aesthetic Autonomy 3 Tennyson as Aesthete and Public Moralist 4 From the Cultured Minority to Minority Culture: The Rise of the Aesthetes 5 Awakened from the Common Dream: Yeats and Aesthetic Autonomy 6 Being Geniuses Together: Gertrude Stein in Paris 7 T.S. Eliot and the Burial of an American Elite 8 W.H. Auden: Camp and Crisis 9 Ashbery Adrift