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Art of Love Poetry

By Erik Gray

Art of Love Poetry Contemporary literature

Art of Love Poetry

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Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. So thinkers from Plato onwards have claimed; and even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it is still commonly considered the most seductive of all forms of art. But why should this be? What are the connections between poetry and love that lead us to associate them so strongly with one another? In this study Erik Gray draws on a broad range of Western thought and poetry to reveal the qualities and structures that love and poetry share. Above all, he argues, both are founded on paradox. Love is at once necessarily public (because interpersonal) and intensely private; hence love both requires expression and resists it. Likewise the experience of love is simultaneously surprising and familiar, singular and conventional. In poetry, especially lyric poetry - which is similarly both dependent on and resistant to language, both exceptionally regular and exceptionally irregular - love finds a natural outlet. The Art of Love Poetry illuminates many of the recurrent tropes that poets across the centuries have employed to represent and express love, exploring such topics as the poetic kiss, the lyric of conjugal love, and the role of animals in love poetry. In describing the inherent erotics of poetry, it offers new insights not only into the long tradition of love lyric but into the nature of love itself.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
2018-03-04
Publication Date:
2018-03-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198752970
ISBN13:
9780198752974
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
416 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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