The Offense Of Poetry
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Author | : Hazard Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Poetry achieves its cultural value by opposing the binary oppositions-form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion-that structure and polarize most understandings of literature and of life. Adams takes a position antithetical to the extremes of both abstract formalism and the politicization of literary content. He concludes with an appreciation of what he calls the double offense of "great bad poetry," poetry so exceptionally bad that it transcends its shortcomings and leads to gaiety.
Author | : Hazard Adams |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0295800798 |
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 various attitudes toward poetry, including both attacks and defenses, offered by writers from Plato and Aristotle to Sidney, Vico, Blake, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney, among others. "Criticism," Adams writes, "needs renewal in every age to free poetry from the prejudices of that age and the unintended prejudices of even the best critics of the past, to free poetry to perform its provocative, antithetical cultural role." Poetry achieves its cultural value by opposing the binary oppositions - form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion - that structure and polarize most understandings of literature and of life. Adams takes a position antithetical to the extremes of both abstract formalism and the politicization of literary content. He concludes with an appreciation of what he calls the double offense of "great bad poetry," poetry so exceptionally bad that it transcends its shortcomings and leads to gaiety. He reminds us that Blake, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, identified angels with the settled and coercive and assigned the qualities of energy and creativity to his devils. According to Adams, poetry, in its broad and traditional sense of all imaginative writing, may be identified with Blake's devils.
Author | : Ben Lerner |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0865478201 |
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299302040 |
This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.
Author | : Jay Surdukowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Evidence, Criminal |
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Author | : Smiles Goodsense |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781424148653 |
I am too poor to be an intellectual. I am too young to be a philosopher. Too uneducated to be writing books. And above all, too blunt to be poetic. But it is not a crime to be different. And it is not stupid to attempt something that people tell you is impossible. I talk of nonconformity and being yourself no matter what the convictions are. There is no gift greater that you can give yourself than the gift of self-actualization. My poetry is real. It is not watered-down, sugary sweet, god-fearing poems about snowflakes.
Author | : P. Gwiazda |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137466278 |
Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and its social value within an era of global politics.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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Author | : Hazard Adams |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0786484942 |
Blake was not only a poet, but also a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to discuss all of the writings except the annotations to Reynolds' Discourses, covered in a previous volume, Blake's Margins (McFarland, 2009). 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 some of the drawings and paintings in Blake's one exhibition of 1809, plus reproductions of other prose texts by Blake.
Author | : Bridget Vincent |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192644254 |
How do poems communicate moral ideas? Can they express concepts in ways that are unique and impossible to replicate in other forms of writing? This book explores these questions by turning to two of the late twentieth century's most important poets: Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Their work shows that a poem can act as an example of a moral concept, rather than simply a description or discussion of it. Exploring these two poets via their shared preoccupation with poetry's moral exemplarity opens up new perspectives on their work. The concept of exemplarity is shown to play an important role in these poets' most significant preoccupations, from moral complicity to the nature of lyric speech to literary influence to memorialisation, responsibility, and aesthetic autonomy. Through this new analysis of poetry, critical prose, drama, and archival materials, this book offers a major new study of ethics in the later period of these two writers—including recent underexplored posthumous works. In turn, the book also makes an important intervention in larger debates about literature and morality, and about the field of ethical criticism itself: this is the first book-length study to expand ethical criticism beyond its customary narrative focus. The ethical criticism of fiction is often an exercise in methodological advocacy, urging the use of more literary examples in moral philosophy. As this book shows, including poetry among these examples introduces new, lyric-inflected caveats about the use of literature as a form of moral example: caveats which remain invisible in narrative-centred ethical criticism.