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After the Death of Poetry
Vernon Lionel Shetley
其他書名
Poet and Audience in Contemporary America
出版
Duke University Press
, 1993
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / General
Poetry / American / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
0822313421
9780822313427
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_sFZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic enterprise on the distant margins of contemporary culture. Along with a clear understanding of where American poetry stands and how it got there,
After the Death of Poetry
offers a compelling set of prescriptions for its future, prescriptions that might enable the art to regain its lost stature in our intellectual life.
In exemplary case studies, Shetley identifies the very different ways in which three postwar poets--Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and John Ashbery--try to restore some of the challenge and risk that characterized modernist poetry's relation to its first readers. Sure to be controversial, this cogent analysis offers poets and readers a clear sense of direction and purpose, and so, the hope of reaching each other again.