Poetry and the fate of the senses
By: Susan Stewart.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Lyric poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry -- History and criticism; Poetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-427) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix; title: CHAPTER I IN THE DARKNESS; title: I. The Privations of Night and the Origins of Poiesis 1; title: II. Laughter, Weeping, and the Order of the Senses 17; title: III. The Lyric Eidos 38; title: CHAPTER 2 SOUND; title: I. Dynamics of Poetic Sound 59; title: II. Hopkins: Invocation and Listening 90; title: CHAPTER 3 VOICE AND POSSESSION; title: I. The Beloved's Voice 107; title: II. Three Cases of Lyric Possession 124; title: CHAPTER 4 FACING, TOUCH, AND VERTIGO; title: I. The Experience of Beholding 145; title: II. Touch in Aesthetic Forms 160; title: III. Vertigo: The Legacy of Baroque Ecstasy 178; title: CHAPTER 5 THE FORMS AND NUMBERS OF TIME; title: I. The Deictic Now 197; title: II. Traces of Human Motion: The Ubi Sunt Tradition 208; title: III. Meditation and Number: Traherne's Centuries 227; title: IV. The Problem of Poetic History 242; title: CHAPTER 6 OUT OF THE DARKNESS: NOCTURNES; title: I. Finch's Transformation of the Night Work 255; title: II. The Emergence of a Nocturne Tradition 280; title: CHAPTER 7 LYRIC COUNTER EPIC; title: I. War and the Alienation of the Senses 293; title: II. Two Lyric Critiques of Epic: Brooks and Walcott 309; title: AFTERBORN 327; title: NOTES 335; title: REFERENCES 389; title: INDEX OF POEMS 429; title: GENERAL INDEX 433.