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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... verse in the early letter to Young , so here the constraining properties of prose are localized and transcended , not by deferring all hopes to an unattainable poetic vision , but by reconstituting spaciousness in the prose itself ...
... verse are interfused , nowhere more so than in those choric rhythms in Samson Agonistes where Milton uses sporadic end - rhyme almost like tacking stitches to give a certain stability to the strange , exploratory hesitancy of his longer ...
... verse . This passage from one of Nietzsche's letters expresses that will : I hurried out to a nearby hilltop , called Leusch . . . found a hut up there , a man who was slaughtering two kids , and his young son . The storm broke with ...
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The Republican Epic of John Milton | 19 |
Southey Landing | 32 |
John Clare in Babylon | 47 |
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