Presenting Poetry: Composition, Publication, Reception

ISBN-13: 9780521473606 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 282 str.

Howard Erskine-Hill; Richard A. McCabe

Opis

The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating skills. At issue are the nature of "authority," the creation of a readership attuned to the writer's resonance, and a delicate negotiation between literary tradition and individual talent. Leading scholars focus on the presentation of major poetic texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, making comparisons across boundaries of generic form. The book includes consideration of the work of Spenser, Milton, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats, and Lawrence.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: 'Personae', Sequence and Commentary: 1. 'Little booke: thy selfe present': the politics of presentation in The Shepheardes Calendar Richard A. McCabe; 2. 'Cut without hands': Herbert's Christian altar Alastair Fowler; 3. On historical commentary: the example of Milton and Dryden Howard Erskine-Hill; 4. Sequences of reading: Pope's Moral Essays and Intimations of Horace Pat Rogers; Part II. The Self Presented and Revised: 5. Presenting jeopardy: language, authority, and the voice of Smart in Jubilate Agno Tom Keymer; 6. Did Blake betray the French Revolution? A dialogue of the mind with itself Jerome K. McGann; 7. Presentation of the self in the composition of The Prelude Robert Woof; 8. The epiphanic mode in Browning's poetry Robert Langbaum; Part III. Readerships Inherited and Invented: 9. Newman's leading Eric Griffiths; 10. The politics of genre and audience in Yeats Seamus Deane; 11. The shaping of D. H. Lawrence's Look We Have Come Through! Mark Kinkead-Weekes; 12. Presentation and self-presentation in In Parenthesis Colin Wilcockson.