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Thinking Poetry

Thinking Poetry

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Publisher's Synopsis

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. Working at once with questions of form, literary theory and philosophy, this volume gives an extraordinarily diverse, original and mobile account of the kind of 'thinking' that poetry can do. The conviction that moves through the collection as a whole is that poetry is not an addition to thought, nor a vehicle to express a given idea, nor an ornamental language in which thinking might find itself couched. Rather, all the essays suggest that poetry itself thinks, in ways that other forms of expression cannot, thus making new intellectual, political and cultural formulations possible.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415824644
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.009
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 470g
Height: 238mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 18mm