Intimate exposure : essays on the public-private divide in British poetry since 1950 /

"This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry has interacted with the public/private divide since the middle of the twentieth century. This book suggests not only new ways of approaching a poem, but of thinking about what gives a poem its linguistic, textual, and performati...

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Other Authors: Merriman, Emily Taylor, Grafe, Adrian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Poetry as "open diagnosis" / Marc Porée
  • Public faces in private places: messianic privacy in Cambridge poetry / Robert Archambeau
  • Ted Hughes as poet laureate: the beast and the sovereign / Laurel Peacock
  • R.S. Thomas: poet of the threshold / Daniel Szabo
  • Performing, transforming, and changing the question: patience Agbabi--poet enough! / Catherine Murphy
  • Strictly private? Stephen Romer's "Les portes de la nuit" / Adrian Grafe
  • Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the birch grove of art / Daniella Jancs
  • "We men-- must vanish"--Heaney's Wordsworth: toward the configuration of an event form / Pascale Guibert
  • "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": the fusion of the private and the public in Seamus Heaney's poetics / Torsten Caeners
  • "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison / Cecile Marshall
  • Private voice and public discourse: a poetics of northern dialect / Claire Hélie
  • Public or private nation: poetic form and national consciousness in the poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill / Carole Birkan-Berz
  • Geoffrey Hill: "a public nuisance" / Emily Taylor Merriman
  • The public intimacy of the poetry of sorrow / Catherine Phillips.