Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen

ISBN-13: 9780199251131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str.

Peter Robinson

Opis

Poetry, Poets, Readers is a defense 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." Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on 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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Peter Robinson is Lecturer in English at Tohoku University, Japan, and author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is About Time Too (2001).