Poetry and opinion / Vidyan Ravinthiran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ravinthiran, Vidyan, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in poetry and poetics

Cambridge elements. Elements in poetry and poetics 2752-5236

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opinion (Philosophy).

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinized. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialized forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea of discourse belying any vision of a cogent public sphere: disinformation is not a purely 21st century, internet phenomenon. Poetry helps us understand this situation. Appearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterized, or have self-characterized, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualized. Sometimes, by the psychological turbulences of the citizen-as-creature, appropriating world events to the need to self-assert; sometimes, as a result of affective matrices that challenge the idea that we are the authors of our own opinions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

“A word of explanation”: Keats, Sharif, Waldrop, Patmore, Arnold, Blake, Capildeo, Mullen, Forbes, Bonney

“Tis you speak, that’s your error”: Hopkins, Browning, Clough, Yeats, Frost, Auden, de Souza

The virtual: Wright, Kleinzahler, Limón, MacNeice, Byron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed March 18, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Ravinthiran, Vidyan. Poetry and opinion.

ISBN:

9781009549097

100954909X

OCLC:

1578999029

Publisher Number:

CIPO000349807

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license