In the circumstances
Subtitle: about poems and poets
By: Peter Robinson.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Poetry -- History and criticism.; Authors and readers.; Reader-response criticism.
Description: In the Circumstances is a study of the way people other than their authors contribute to poems. Discussing work by Wordsworth, Browning, Hardy, Pound, Eliot, Montale, Auden, Lowell, and Hill, the book explores how other people's lives and wider circumstances can influence the textual contexts of poems and be felt within the works themselves. These circumstances emerge in such things as allusions to political events of the day, the inclusion of proper names and, above all, the citation or absorption of the words of others. The book asks how the poets themselves worked these circumstances into the fabric of their poems, and what bearing this has on subsequent acts of revision and translation. These are current issues: for all those involved with poetry, as readers or writers, this book will provide pleasure and stimulus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.