The Strength of Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780199261390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 276 str.

James Fenton

Opis

Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues of creativity and the earning of success, of judgement, tutorage, rivalry, and ambition. He goes on to consider the juvenilia of Wilfred Owen, the scarred lines of Philip Larkin, the inheritance of imperialism, and issues of constituency in Seamus Heaney. He looks too at Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and their contrasting feminisms, and at D.H. Lawrence, welcoming the dark. The climax of the book is his extensive discussion of Auden.

Recenzje

The mind that guides this pen is warm and insightful, and even occasionally right...not a word is wasted, not a thought ill-expressed

O autorze

James Fenton is one of the country's most acclaimed poets and author of The Memory of War and Children in Exile (1983) and the Whitbread Prize winning Out of Danger (1994). Formerly a critic for New Statesman and The Times, and for many years a far east correspondent for The Independent, Fenton succeeded Seamus Heaney as the Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1994.