A Vertical Art : : On Poetry / / Simon Armitage.
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet
- Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation, and ‘A Final Revelation of Horrible Nothingness’
- On Lists
- Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
- We Need to Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize in Literature
- The Hawks and the Doves: Raptors and Rapture in the Poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes
- Like, Elizabeth Bishop
- Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
- Damned if He Does and Damned if He Doesn’t? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ‘Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments’: Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
- ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’
- CODA Ninety-five Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
- Notes
- Acknowledgements