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Poetry, Poets, Readers Making Things Happen

Robinson, Peter
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199251131
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
216

Forfatter
Robinson, Peter

Biographical note

Peter Robinson is Lecturer in English at Tohoku University, Japan, and author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is About Time Too (2001).

Poetry, Poets, Readers Making Things Happen

Robinson, Peter
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk
Robinson, Peter
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Peter Robinson has done wonderful things with Searle's narrow categories.

Modern Language Review

Robinson's reading of poems...show subtlety, a wide and always appropriate range of reference, and an understated persuasiveness that makes this book a valuable contribution to the 'conflictual culture of negotiation and evolution'(p.108) that the author himself describes criticism to be.

Modern Language Review

Robinson's critical senses are fine-tuned ... this results in some bracing analyses of poems, and the ways of happening they embody ... His criticism insists on the really important questions to which only the best poety is equal. This is to reclaim for poetry the seriousness and centrality it demands.

Peter MacDonald, Times Literary Supplement

Poetry, Poets, Readers is a defence of poetry against the protective moves which claim that poets never lie because they never affirm, or that their poems exist in a separate 'world'. These much re-iterated manoeuvres for safe-guarding poetry by banishing it from an active role in life can paradoxically go hand in hand with a poet's yearning for the authority of a legislator. Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on question forms in poems, the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets, the book sets out a fresh model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers - one which allows the historical fact of poems having made things happen to be itself happening. Peter Robinson, himself an award-winning poet, explores what we do by imagining when we read or write poems. In describing how poetry, poets, and readers make things happen the poet offers us an invitation and implies a promise. Taking up the one, we find out how to keep the other.
Les mer
Written by an award-winning poet, Peter Robinson's book offers a model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers, and considers the work of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Bishop, and Muldoon, along with explorations of such matters as questions in poems, facts in fictions, and literary value.
Les mer
1. Making Things Happen ; 2. 'For poetry makes nothing happen' ; 3. What Kind of Question? ; 4. Matters of Fact and Value ; 5. Pretended Speech Acts ; 6. Things Done with Words ; 7. Joking Apart ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
Peter Robinson has done wonderful things with Searle's narrow categories.
`Review from other book by this author 'Translation, forthrightness and literalism are among the themes of Peter Robinson's intriguing new book...The sheer range of Peter Robinson's work seems to acquit him from charges of normativeness.'' Mark Wormald, Times Literary Supplement `'Peter Robinson integrates sensitive close readings with political awareness of originating, and changing, context to produce an historically informed criticism more satisfying than some of the work currently passing as such. In the Circumstances is additionally interesting for its subtle restoration of the idea of the poem as a collective act.'' MLR, 89.4, 1994 `intelligent and useful...What Robinson has to say about Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning, about Wordsworth's `The Sailor's Mother' or Eliot's The Dry Salvages, is stimulating, lucid, and original...Robinson can bring a very sharp eye to bear on the verbal details of poetic texture, and is adept at highlighting words or constructions in particular poems which carry with them implications for larger patterns of critical understanding of the poet in question.' Review of English Studies
Les mer
Peter Robinson is Lecturer in English at Tohoku University, Japan, and author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is About Time Too (2001).

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Peter Robinson has done wonderful things with Searle's narrow categories.

Modern Language Review

Robinson's reading of poems...show subtlety, a wide and always appropriate range of reference, and an understated persuasiveness that makes this book a valuable contribution to the 'conflictual culture of negotiation and evolution'(p.108) that the author himself describes criticism to be.

Modern Language Review

Robinson's critical senses are fine-tuned ... this results in some bracing analyses of poems, and the ways of happening they embody ... His criticism insists on the really important questions to which only the best poety is equal. This is to reclaim for poetry the seriousness and centrality it demands.

Peter MacDonald, Times Literary Supplement

Poetry, Poets, Readers is a defence of poetry against the protective moves which claim that poets never lie because they never affirm, or that their poems exist in a separate 'world'. These much re-iterated manoeuvres for safe-guarding poetry by banishing it from an active role in life can paradoxically go hand in hand with a poet's yearning for the authority of a legislator. Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on question forms in poems, the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets, the book sets out a fresh model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers - one which allows the historical fact of poems having made things happen to be itself happening. Peter Robinson, himself an award-winning poet, explores what we do by imagining when we read or write poems. In describing how poetry, poets, and readers make things happen the poet offers us an invitation and implies a promise. Taking up the one, we find out how to keep the other.
Les mer
Written by an award-winning poet, Peter Robinson's book offers a model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers, and considers the work of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Bishop, and Muldoon, along with explorations of such matters as questions in poems, facts in fictions, and literary value.
Les mer
1. Making Things Happen ; 2. 'For poetry makes nothing happen' ; 3. What Kind of Question? ; 4. Matters of Fact and Value ; 5. Pretended Speech Acts ; 6. Things Done with Words ; 7. Joking Apart ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
Peter Robinson has done wonderful things with Searle's narrow categories.
`Review from other book by this author 'Translation, forthrightness and literalism are among the themes of Peter Robinson's intriguing new book...The sheer range of Peter Robinson's work seems to acquit him from charges of normativeness.'' Mark Wormald, Times Literary Supplement `'Peter Robinson integrates sensitive close readings with political awareness of originating, and changing, context to produce an historically informed criticism more satisfying than some of the work currently passing as such. In the Circumstances is additionally interesting for its subtle restoration of the idea of the poem as a collective act.'' MLR, 89.4, 1994 `intelligent and useful...What Robinson has to say about Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning, about Wordsworth's `The Sailor's Mother' or Eliot's The Dry Salvages, is stimulating, lucid, and original...Robinson can bring a very sharp eye to bear on the verbal details of poetic texture, and is adept at highlighting words or constructions in particular poems which carry with them implications for larger patterns of critical understanding of the poet in question.' Review of English Studies
Les mer
Peter Robinson is Lecturer in English at Tohoku University, Japan, and author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is About Time Too (2001).

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199251131
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
216

Forfatter
Robinson, Peter

Biographical note

Peter Robinson is Lecturer in English at Tohoku University, Japan, and author of five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is About Time Too (2001).

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