Lofty Dogmas: Poets on PoeticsDeborah Brown, Annie Finch, Maxine Kumin University of Arkansas Press, 2005 - 440 sivua Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser. The book is divided into three sections. "Musing" concerns issues of inspiration, "Making," issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona and voice, and "Mapping," the role of poetry and the poet. Headnotes at the beginning of each selection provide background information about the poet and commentary on the significance of the selection. There is also a useful appendix with a listing of essays arranged according to more specific topics. As the poets write in their introduction: "This book was intended to deepen readers' understanding of age-old poetic ideas while at the same time pointing out new directions for thinking about poetry, juxtaposing the familiar and the strange, reconfiguring old boundaries, and shaking up stereotypes." |
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... written prose , when rhythm is perceived in them . ( 2 ) It is the rhythm of all but the most monotonously regular music , so that in the words of choruses and refrains and in songs written closely to music it arises . ( 3 ) It is found ...
... written prose , when rhythm is perceived in them . ( 2 ) It is the rhythm of all but the most monotonously regular music , so that in the words of choruses and refrains and in songs written closely to music it arises . ( 3 ) It is found ...
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... written his Quartets . He is a very subtle creator - who knows how to squeeze the last ounce of force out of his material . He has done a good job here though when he speaks of devel- oping a new manner of writing , new manners ...
... written his Quartets . He is a very subtle creator - who knows how to squeeze the last ounce of force out of his material . He has done a good job here though when he speaks of devel- oping a new manner of writing , new manners ...
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... written with an eye to posterity billions and tril- lions of years from now . They felt , some of them , that if they wrote a poem that worked for black people today , it would have served its purpose . . . . I'm afraid that I'm weak ...
... written with an eye to posterity billions and tril- lions of years from now . They felt , some of them , that if they wrote a poem that worked for black people today , it would have served its purpose . . . . I'm afraid that I'm weak ...
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Acknowledgments | xxv |
MARIANNE MOORE | xxvii |
T S ELIOT | 4 |
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