There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. Poetry's main cultural value is its offensiveness; it should be defended as offensive.
Adams specifies four poetic offenses - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope - and devotes a chapter to each, ranging across the landscape of traditional literary criticism and exploring the...
There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poe...
There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. Poetry's main cultural value is its offensiveness; it should be defended as offensive.
Adams specifies four poetic offenses - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope - and devotes a chapter to each, ranging across the landscape of traditional literary criticism and exploring the...
There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poe...
"The best book on Yeats and the best book of American literary criticism informed by critical theory to appear since Harold Bloom s Years."--Daniel T. O Hara, Temple University
"An important study of a major aspect of Yeats s poetry, in some ways the fruit of a lifetime s thinking by one of our most distinguished Yeatsians."--Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee
In this most ambitious work on Yeats in two decades, Hazard Adams undertakes a study of all of the poems Yeats wished to include in his volume of collected poetry, and he reveals a canon carefully constructed to...
"The best book on Yeats and the best book of American literary criticism informed by critical theory to appear since Harold Bloom s Years."--Daniel...
In his Afterword to this finely honed and memorable collection, written over some 40 years? time, Hazard Adams characterizes these poems as ?those I am willing to stand by.? He has chosen well. This is a radiant volume, rich with imagery and enlivened with a wry and witty sensibility, its five parts charged with the sweep of a small drama. These are poems that wear well and welcome repeated reading. They are a pleasure to read aloud.
Adams opens with a series of strong, spare, bittersweet elegies to his parents and grandparents and to his own rural beginnings as he wrestles with the...
In his Afterword to this finely honed and memorable collection, written over some 40 years? time, Hazard Adams characterizes these poems as ?those ...
This memoir describes a life-long professional career in education and academics. The memoir begins with the author's family experiences at Hawken before following through to the his education at Seattle's Lakeside School and later the United States Marine Corps and the University of Washington.
This memoir describes a life-long professional career in education and academics. The memoir begins with the author's family experiences at Hawken bef...
Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.
Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other wr...
Blake was not merely a poet, but a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to collect and discuss all of the writings in one volume. Topics include his opinions on his predecessors and his contemporaries, his reaction to critics, and his artistic intentions. This valuable addition to Blake scholarship includes reproductions of all the extant drawings and paintings in Blake's one exhibition of 1809, plus reproductions of other prose texts by Blake.]
Blake was not merely a poet, but a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to collect and discuss all of ...
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the symbolic form in Blake's poem Jerusalem, the world view of Blake in relation to cultural policy and the notion of contrariety in Blake's--writings to the relation of Chinese literary thought to that of the West, the critical work of Northrup Frye and Murray Krieger and the cultural and academic...
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazar...
