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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... look at me at all . The living soul has dribbled away . My eyes rest on it and pass on . The knife could be a sacred implement , like the ' aged utensil ' , a lamp , that acts as the lares and penates of the peasant cottage in ...
... look like someone in front of a firing squad ? ) . A tourist arrives in Naples like a child being born and christened - it's all so sudden , hostile , strange , enticing . Being inside any social or histori- cal moment is like being ...
... look , and the opening line of " Tern ' ' The breaker humps its green glass ' - is a characteristically instantaneous vision that unites the literal and the figurative , the natural and the technological . The alienated space between ...
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The Republican Epic of John Milton | 19 |
Southey Landing | 32 |
John Clare in Babylon | 47 |
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