Poetry and Islands
Subtitle: Materiality and the Creative Imagination
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Published: Mar 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781783484102
Description: Explores how islands become repositories of human longings and desires, a locus for some of our deepest fears and fantasies. It balances historical and geographical reference with a selective approach to poems and poets in English, and in translations into English. The study of particular poems in which islands figure in exemplary ways is balanced by a more detailed discussion of the poets who have played a major role in shaping human responses to islands on a global scale.
Notes: Source title: Poetry and Islands: Materiality and the Creative Imagination (Rethinking the Island)