Graphic Poetics: Poetry as Visual Art Contributor(s): Bradford, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441123458 ISBN-13: 9781441123459 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.009 |
LCCN: 2012011887 |
Series: Continuum Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Concrete', 'pattern' or 'shaped' poems are well documented as experimental curiosities. While giving some attention to this sub-genre the book shifts the focus to the ways in which visual form manifests itself in 'traditional' verse, examining poems by Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Olson, T.E. Hulme, Auden, Williams, Larkin and Charles Tomlinson. It examines how the tactile presence of the poem on the page transcends the routine distinctions between genre and historical context, emerging as a significant but largely unexamined contribution to modernist poetics. The interpretative methodology is radical, adapting Wollheim's 'twofold thesis' - grounded in the aesthetics of visual art - to the author's own concept of the 'double pattern'. |