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Allusion to the Poets
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The first half of the book, on 'The Poet as Heir', consists of six chapters devoted to individual poets, Augustan, Romantic, and Victorian: Dryden and Pope, Burns, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Tennyson. Allusion is always a form of inheritance, not to be hoarded or squandered. The critical and creative question is its imaginative co-operation with other kinds of legacy - with whatever for a particular poet or for a particular time is judged to be an unignorable inheritance: of a throne, perhaps, or of land; of intermixed languages; of the human senses; of money; of literature itself; or of our planet, long-lived but not eternal.
The second half of the book is six essays on allusion's affiliations: to plagiarism (allusion being plagiarism's responsible opposite); to metaphor (allusion being a form that metaphor may take); to loneliness in poetry (allusion constituting company). And on allusion within poetry to prose (A E. Housman); on translation as exercising allusion (David Ferry); and on the clash between one poet's practice and his critical principles (Yvor Winters).
Product details
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2002-11-14
Publication Date:
2002-08-29
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199250324
ISBN13:
9780199250325
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
628 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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