Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation StateHarvard University Press, 1992 - 298 sider One of the most powerful poets of his generation consolidates his reputation as an exceptionally forthright and astringent critic in this book that analyzes the relationship between English-language literature, especially poetry, and nineteenth and twentieth-century politics. Tom Paulin's criticism stays on track, always responsive to a work's characteristic genius and sensitive to its social setting. Each of these essays--on poets ranging from Robert Southey and Christina Rossetti to Philip Larkin, from John Clare to Elizabeth Bishop and Ted Hughes, with a few excursions into the poetry of Eastern Europe for contrast--is informed by a love for poetry and a lively attention to detail. At every turn, Paulin demonstrates the intricate connection between the private imagination and society at large, simultaneously illuminating the kinship between the literature of the past and of the present. He also relates the poetry to themes of nationhood and to ideas about orality, speech rhythms, and vernacular background. Minotaur exemplifies the sort of general, accessible criticism of the arts that will interest a wide range of readers. |
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... culture based on the disciplines of history ' . Nietzsche , who was then a young philologist , had turned violently ... culture . Nietzsche's closing insistence that ' sincerity ' is a step towards ' true culture ' , his assertion that ...
... culture is destroyed by the institutions of law , order , printed texts . Clare ought to have been the English Burns , but as John Lucas has remarked he is a great poet who has for a long time ' been more or less invisible ' . He is a ...
... cultures . He identifies with those cultures that have been obliterated from ' the religious map of the world ' because they help him encode Polish ... culture and history . The Soldier and the Prince : Zbigniew Herbert Elegy of 210 MINOTAUR.
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