A vertical art : on poetry /
In A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an ar...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The parable of the solicitor and the poet
- Mind the gap: omission, negation, and 'A final revelation of horrible nothingness'
- On lists
- Access all areas : poetry and the underworld
- We need to talk about Robert : Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize in Literature
- The Hawks and the Dove : raptors and rapture in the poems of Thom Gun and Ted Hughes
- Like, Elizabeth Bishop
- Winter words in various moods and metres
- Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't? Dilemmas and decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 'Undisfigured by false or vicious ornaments' : clarity and obscurity in the age of formlessness
- 'When I heard the learn'd astronomer'
- CODA. Ninety-five theses: on the principles and practice of poetry.