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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... figure of Emmet , then to emerge as a courtier who addresses his aristocratic friends in order to put behind him both Emmet's views and his own early opinions . Intellectual autobiography becomes a mixture of flattery , self - pity ...
... figure from an expressionist cartoon , he flickers through an urban landscape of buildings that are not dwellings . This may be the symbolic significance of the wasps ' nest in ' Santarém ' : In the blue pharmacy the pharmacist had hung ...
... figure , a colonel who is destined never to retire , a heroic tank commander , a facile symbol overloaded with signifi- cance . Like so many of Hughes's myth poems , ' Gog ' suffers from a lack of social and temporal location - it ...
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The Republican Epic of John Milton | 19 |
Southey Landing | 32 |
John Clare in Babylon | 47 |
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