Presenting poetry
Subtitle: composition, publication, reception : essays in honour of Ian Jack
By: edited by Howard Erskine-Hill and Richard A. McCabe.
Contributors: Jack, Ian Robert James.; Erskine-Hill, Howard.; McCabe, Richard A. 1954-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism
Description: 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, Newman, 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 personae to the construction of autobiographical 'self', from the interaction of printed word and visual image to the arrangements and rearrangements of structure and sequence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.