Against coercion
Against coercion: games poets play Eleanor Cook
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0804729379
LCC: PN1042
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-305) and indexes.
I. Empire, war, nation. Eliot, Keynes, and empire: The waste land --
Schemes against coercion: Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
-- Fables of war in Elizabeth Bishop -- Faulkner, typology, and Black
history in Go down, Moses -- "A seeing and unseeing in the eye":
Canadian literature and the sense of place. II. Culture and the uses
of memory: allusion. Questions of allusion -- The language of
scripture in Wordsworth's Prelude -- The senses of Eliot's salvages
-- Wallace Stevens and the King James Bible -- Birds in paradise:
revisions of a topos in Milton, Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Ammons.
III. Poets at play. Melos versus logos, or, Why doesn't God sing?:
some thoughts on Milton's wisdom -- The poetics of modern punning:
Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others -- Riddles, charms, and
fictions in Wallace Stevens -- The function of riddles at the present
time -- The flying griphos: in pursuit of enigma from Aristophanes to
Toursenol, with stops in Carroll, Ariosto, and Dante. IV. Practice.
Ghost rhymes and how they work -- Methought as dream formula in
Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and others -- Reading a poem:
on John Hollander's "Owl" -- Teaching poetry: accurate songs, or
thinking-in-poetry.
Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same
subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as
geographical locations, dates and so on.
We query many merchants so that you can instantly
compare prices and
availability. You can even check historic prices and subscribe
for notifications. For a manual check, clicking on a link will open a
new window with a search for this book on the merchant's site of your
choice.
