Intimate exposure
Subtitle: essays on the public-private divide in British poetry since 1950
By: edited by Emily Taylor Merriman and Adrian Grafe.
Contributors: Merriman, Emily Taylor.; Grafe, Adrian.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.; McFarland
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780786442218
Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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 performative singularity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poetry as "open diagnosis" / Marc Porée; title: Public faces in private places: messianic privacy in Cambridge poetry / Robert Archambeau; title: Ted Hughes as poet laureate: the beast and the sovereign / Laurel Peacock; title: R.S. Thomas: poet of the threshold / Daniel Szabo; title: Performing, transforming, and changing the question: patience Agbabi-poet enough! / Catherine Murphy; title: Strictly private, Stephen Romer's "Les portes de la nuit" / Adrian Grafe; title: Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the birch grove of art / Daniella Jancs; title: "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: toward the configuration of an event form / Pascale Guibert; title: "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": the fusion of the private and the public in Seamus Heaney's poetics / Torsten Caeners; title: "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison; title: Cecile Marshall; title: Private voice and public discourse: a poetics of northern dialect / Claire Helie; title: Public or private nation: poetic form and national consciousness in the poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill / Carole Birkan-Berz; title: Geoffrey Hill: "a public nuisance" / Emily Taylor Merriman; title: The public intimacy of the poetry of sorrow / Catherine Phillips.