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Presenting Poetry

Composition, Publication, Reception

Howard Erskine-Hill editor Richard A McCabe editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Sep '08

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The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating skills. Leading scholars focus on the presentation of major poetic texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, exploring changes in rhetoric, structure and form.The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating skills. At issue are the nature of 'authority', the creation of a readership attuned to the writer's poetic resonances, and a delicate negotiation between literary tradition and individual talent. In a series of detailed readings leading scholars focus on the presentation of work by Spenser, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Smart, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats, Lawrence and David Jones. The wide chronological range enables unusually extensive comparison across the boundaries of generic form, and between the varying emotional, aesthetic and rhetorical emphases of specific periods: from the creation of fictitious 'persona' to the construction of autobiographical 'self', from the interaction of printed word and visual image to the arrangements and rearrangements of structure and sequence.

ISBN: 9780521078924

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 420g

284 pages