Vertical Art (eBook)

On Poetry

Simon Armitage (Autor)

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2022
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23914-9 (ISBN)

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn 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 array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage's public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in "e;Like, Elizabeth Bishop,"e; in which Armitage dissects-and tallies-the poet's predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of "e;Ninety-Five Theses"e; on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: adage • A. E. Housman • Al Alvarez • A Little Help • Allegation • Allen Ginsberg • Alliterative Verse • Ancient Greek • animal husbandry • An Inspector calls • Anna Akhmatova • Apathy • A Song to David • axle • Barry Hines • Bathtub • Blank Verse • Blood sausage • Bob and wheel • Bone marrow • Book • Bromsgrove • BY-PRODUCT • Calligraphy • Career • catchphrase • Christina Rossetti • Cleanness • Coaching • comprehensive school • conceit • confessional writing • Creative Writing • crossword • culprit • Cymbeline • Dark night of the soul • Deadpool • Death of a Naturalist • Diary • dramatic monologue • Dream Vision • Edfu • Edgar Allan Poe • Edition (book) • Edward Hirsch • Effervescence • Elizabeth Bishop • Emblem • english poetry • Erica Jong • erudition • Essay • Euripides • Everyday life • excursus • Exhumation (geology) • explication • extended metaphor • FART • Fear of Flying (novel) • fuck • gazetteer • geographer • George Mackay Brown • Gesture • Goblin Market • God's Gift to Women • Guideline • Hilary Mantel • Hip • Howl and Other Poems • How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix • hyperbole • Imagination • imagism • impact evaluation • incorruptibility • innuendo • inoculation • In Parenthesis • invisibility • it works • Jargon • John Wain • J. R. R. Tolkien • Kazuo Ishiguro • Kenneth Koch • Lady Justice • lead • Leaves of Grass • lectern • Leonard Cohen • Libido • Life Expectancy • literary fiction • Lord Alfred Douglas • Lyrical Ballads • Man of the People • Mary Shelley • Maurice Riordan • Melodrama • misanthropy • Moisture • Multiple Choice • Mutability (poem) • Narcissism • National Poetry Day • necromancy • Neil Young • Northern Hemisphere • Notation • nudity • Of mice and men • Orwellian • Ownership • ozymandias • Pararhyme • Pastry • pen name • Peter Reading • Philip Larkin • Phrenology • Piers Plowman • Pint • Platitude • Plot Point • plough • poetic diction • Poetry • Porthole • Posidonius • Poster child • Production vehicle • Pun • Quiddity • Ray Bradbury • Rhyme • Robert Burns • Robert Conquest • Robert Frost • Romanticism • Round Table • R. S. Thomas • Sayre's law • Scapula • Self-Help Book • Self-reference • Semantics • sensationalism • Short Prose • simile • Skunk Hour • Smallholding • Songwriter • Sonnet 23 • Subwoofer • Sushi • Technology • Ted Hughes • Ted Hughes Award • The Anthologist • The Doomsday Scenario • The Faerie Queene • The Female Eunuch • The Grand Budapest Hotel • The Shield of Achilles • The Squire's Tale • Thomas Nashe • Thom Gunn • tik tok • To His Coy Mistress • Tutor • university of sheffield • Urine • Usability • Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel) • Vocation (poem) • Walker Evans • Wallace Stevens • Walter Savage Landor • Way Out (TV series) • Wessex Poems and Other Verses • W. H. Auden • Wilfred Owen • William Blake • William Carlos Williams • Wind Instrument • word processor • World to come • writing workshop • W. S. Graham • Yusef Komunyakaa
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23914-2 / 0691239142
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23914-9 / 9780691239149