What is a poet? : essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature / edited by Hank Lazer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Lazer, Hank.

Conference Name:

Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (11th : 1984 : University of Alabama)

Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

American poetry.

Poetry--Congresses.

Poetry.

English poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; THE SYMPOSIUM; The Character of the Poet; What Modernism Offers the Contemporary Poet; Keats and the Use of Poetry; Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical ""Choice"" and Historical Formation; In Search of an Absolute; Horses with Wings; Blood on the Cutting Room Floor; What is This Poet?; Poetry as Symbolic Action; PANEL DISCUSSION; All nine participants, plus comoderators Hank Lazer and Gregory Jay; ADDITIONAL ESSAYS; Poetry and Ambition; Critical Theory and Contemporary American Poetry; Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8335-2

OCLC:

772845435