Thomas F. Bonnell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199532209
- eISBN:
- 9780191700996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532209.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter looks at the careers of William Creech and John Boyle, and examines how the English Classics spread across Scotland. For 40 years, Creech was the chief publisher in Edinburgh. Creech ...
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This chapter looks at the careers of William Creech and John Boyle, and examines how the English Classics spread across Scotland. For 40 years, Creech was the chief publisher in Edinburgh. Creech carried on by far the most extensive bookselling concern in Scotland, publishing the writings of many of the distinguished men who adorned Scottish literature at the close of the eighteenth century. His works include the Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, and British Poets. When Francis Douglas faded from the scene in the 1760s, Aberdeen fell to John Boyle. His forty-four titles account for almost half the books printed in Aberdeen from 1771 to 1780. Boyle's formulation of intrinsic worth in the Aberdeen collection embraces ‘all that is valuable of the whole English poets’. Among his famous works is A Collection of the English Poets. The chapter argues that such productions of English classics reflected credit on Scotland.Less
This chapter looks at the careers of William Creech and John Boyle, and examines how the English Classics spread across Scotland. For 40 years, Creech was the chief publisher in Edinburgh. Creech carried on by far the most extensive bookselling concern in Scotland, publishing the writings of many of the distinguished men who adorned Scottish literature at the close of the eighteenth century. His works include the Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, and British Poets. When Francis Douglas faded from the scene in the 1760s, Aberdeen fell to John Boyle. His forty-four titles account for almost half the books printed in Aberdeen from 1771 to 1780. Boyle's formulation of intrinsic worth in the Aberdeen collection embraces ‘all that is valuable of the whole English poets’. Among his famous works is A Collection of the English Poets. The chapter argues that such productions of English classics reflected credit on Scotland.
Lucy Collins
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381878
- eISBN:
- 9781781382271
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381878.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of ...
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This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. Literary memory highlights the relationship between poet and reader, as well as the larger critical contexts that support or challenge the production of creative work. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition.Less
This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. It explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. Literary memory highlights the relationship between poet and reader, as well as the larger critical contexts that support or challenge the production of creative work. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition.
Jesse Zuba
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164472
- eISBN:
- 9781400873791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164472.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter offers an interpretation of one of the most remarkable debut collections ever selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets award—Some Trees by John Ashbery. The reputation of the book ...
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This chapter offers an interpretation of one of the most remarkable debut collections ever selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets award—Some Trees by John Ashbery. The reputation of the book as an unconventional debut has dominated the critical response to it, from the early, largely negative judgments by critics such as William Arrowsmith and Donald Hall, to more recent attempts to revalue it by Marjorie Perloff, Vernon Shetley, David Lehman, and others. The chapter argues that Some Trees has been misread both by its detractors and defenders, who tend to stress the ways in which the poems resist interpretation while ignoring many of the ways in which they encourage and support it.Less
This chapter offers an interpretation of one of the most remarkable debut collections ever selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets award—Some Trees by John Ashbery. The reputation of the book as an unconventional debut has dominated the critical response to it, from the early, largely negative judgments by critics such as William Arrowsmith and Donald Hall, to more recent attempts to revalue it by Marjorie Perloff, Vernon Shetley, David Lehman, and others. The chapter argues that Some Trees has been misread both by its detractors and defenders, who tend to stress the ways in which the poems resist interpretation while ignoring many of the ways in which they encourage and support it.
Karen Jaime
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479808281
- eISBN:
- 9781479808304
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479808281.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The Queer Nuyorican critically studies the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term “Nuyorican” shifts from a raced/ethnic identity marker to “nuyorican,” an aesthetic ...
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The Queer Nuyorican critically studies the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term “Nuyorican” shifts from a raced/ethnic identity marker to “nuyorican,” an aesthetic practice. While “Nuyorican,” uppercase N, marks an ethnic, political, and cultural identity signifying Puerto Rican community, culture, and struggle in New York City from the late 1960s through the 1980s, “nuyorican,” lowercase n, references an aesthetic practice that developed alongside the spoken word and competitive slam poetry scene in the 1990s. The nuyorican aesthetic queers fixed definitions of Nuyorican identity by recognizing and including queer poets and performers of color whose cultural works build upon the linguistic, spatial, and ethno-cultural politics inherent in the Cafe’s founding. Initially situated within the Cafe’s physical space and countercultural discursive history, the nuyorican aesthetic extends beyond these gendered and ethnic boundaries, broadening the ethnic marker “Nuyorican” in order to include queer, trans, and diasporic performance modalities. Focusing on the interventions made by queer and trans artists of color—Miguel Piñero, Regie Cabico, Glam Slam participants, and Ellison Glenn/Black Cracker—this book argues that the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has operated as a queer space since its inception.Less
The Queer Nuyorican critically studies the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term “Nuyorican” shifts from a raced/ethnic identity marker to “nuyorican,” an aesthetic practice. While “Nuyorican,” uppercase N, marks an ethnic, political, and cultural identity signifying Puerto Rican community, culture, and struggle in New York City from the late 1960s through the 1980s, “nuyorican,” lowercase n, references an aesthetic practice that developed alongside the spoken word and competitive slam poetry scene in the 1990s. The nuyorican aesthetic queers fixed definitions of Nuyorican identity by recognizing and including queer poets and performers of color whose cultural works build upon the linguistic, spatial, and ethno-cultural politics inherent in the Cafe’s founding. Initially situated within the Cafe’s physical space and countercultural discursive history, the nuyorican aesthetic extends beyond these gendered and ethnic boundaries, broadening the ethnic marker “Nuyorican” in order to include queer, trans, and diasporic performance modalities. Focusing on the interventions made by queer and trans artists of color—Miguel Piñero, Regie Cabico, Glam Slam participants, and Ellison Glenn/Black Cracker—this book argues that the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has operated as a queer space since its inception.
Erik Heine (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252043000
- eISBN:
- 9780252051869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043000.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Australian director Peter Weir’s career has spanned five decades, working in both Hollywood and Australia. One typical trait in his films is the subject matter that typically falls outside of ...
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Australian director Peter Weir’s career has spanned five decades, working in both Hollywood and Australia. One typical trait in his films is the subject matter that typically falls outside of Hollywood spectacle, choosing to focus on characters and introspection. Another trait is the use of preexisting art music in nearly all of his films. Weir’s use of art music spans more than 400 years, drawing on a wide range of composers such as Albinoni, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vaughan Williams, Glass, and Górecki, among others. One genre, the piano concerto, is used particularly effectively in Weir’s films. The second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” is used in two films, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dead Poets Society. In The Truman Show, the second movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is used, in each case sounding a “voice of innocence” to the respective characters, a wordless voice that the characters are unable to articulate themselves. This musical voice protests the repressive structures that these characters confront, and the play between soloist and orchestra in these slow movements serves as a particularly apt musical metaphor for their highly regimented lives and their dreams of escaping the control.Less
Australian director Peter Weir’s career has spanned five decades, working in both Hollywood and Australia. One typical trait in his films is the subject matter that typically falls outside of Hollywood spectacle, choosing to focus on characters and introspection. Another trait is the use of preexisting art music in nearly all of his films. Weir’s use of art music spans more than 400 years, drawing on a wide range of composers such as Albinoni, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vaughan Williams, Glass, and Górecki, among others. One genre, the piano concerto, is used particularly effectively in Weir’s films. The second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” is used in two films, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dead Poets Society. In The Truman Show, the second movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is used, in each case sounding a “voice of innocence” to the respective characters, a wordless voice that the characters are unable to articulate themselves. This musical voice protests the repressive structures that these characters confront, and the play between soloist and orchestra in these slow movements serves as a particularly apt musical metaphor for their highly regimented lives and their dreams of escaping the control.
Jonathan Bate
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183242
- eISBN:
- 9780191673986
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183242.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter examines the influence of Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) on the literary writings of William Shakespeare. Ovid's inspiration of Shakespeare was first recognized in 1598 when ...
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This chapter examines the influence of Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) on the literary writings of William Shakespeare. Ovid's inspiration of Shakespeare was first recognized in 1598 when Francis Meres undertook an exercise in the art of simile titled ‘A comparative Discourse of the English Poets with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets’. In addition to the similarity of methods of composition observed by Meres, there are also other obvious points of similarity between the works of Ovid and Shakespeare. These include their rewriting of inherited stories into a completely new one and their refusal to submit to the decorum of genre.Less
This chapter examines the influence of Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) on the literary writings of William Shakespeare. Ovid's inspiration of Shakespeare was first recognized in 1598 when Francis Meres undertook an exercise in the art of simile titled ‘A comparative Discourse of the English Poets with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets’. In addition to the similarity of methods of composition observed by Meres, there are also other obvious points of similarity between the works of Ovid and Shakespeare. These include their rewriting of inherited stories into a completely new one and their refusal to submit to the decorum of genre.
Thomas F. Bonnell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199532209
- eISBN:
- 9780191700996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532209.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter discusses the contributions of John Bell to publishing and examines some practices prevalent at the time such as piracy and reprinting. Bell invoked the admired edition of the Latin ...
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This chapter discusses the contributions of John Bell to publishing and examines some practices prevalent at the time such as piracy and reprinting. Bell invoked the admired edition of the Latin classics by Elzevir. His literature-for-the-masses volume, Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost multiple times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his abandonment of the long s. Most notable, perhaps, was Bell's joint-stock organization of his publishing company, which defied the trade — forty dominant publishing companies — in order to establish a monopoly on the best publications. The rest of the chapter examines the progress of piracy and the trade war in the reprinting industry.Less
This chapter discusses the contributions of John Bell to publishing and examines some practices prevalent at the time such as piracy and reprinting. Bell invoked the admired edition of the Latin classics by Elzevir. His literature-for-the-masses volume, Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost multiple times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his abandonment of the long s. Most notable, perhaps, was Bell's joint-stock organization of his publishing company, which defied the trade — forty dominant publishing companies — in order to establish a monopoly on the best publications. The rest of the chapter examines the progress of piracy and the trade war in the reprinting industry.
Thomas F. Bonnell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199532209
- eISBN:
- 9780191700996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532209.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter discusses Robert Anderson's comprehensive view of English poetry. Anderson was the first non-bookseller to wield much editorial authority over a multi-volume poetry collection. His ...
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This chapter discusses Robert Anderson's comprehensive view of English poetry. Anderson was the first non-bookseller to wield much editorial authority over a multi-volume poetry collection. His publishers transformed the enterprise by using royal octavo volumes printed in double columns. The first section of the chapter looks into the relationship between publisher and editor, citing examples in the workplace of Mundell and Son. The second section describes the tasks of Anderson when he became editor. It notes that biographies were Anderson's most time-consuming responsibility. The third section describes Anderson's task of publication and dissemination as similar to collecting scattered gems and associating them for the benefit of the audience. The fourth section discusses the goal of Mundell and Son to publish the cheapest and most perfect edition of the British Poets. The fifth section discusses Anderson's resolve on completing his editorial tasks.Less
This chapter discusses Robert Anderson's comprehensive view of English poetry. Anderson was the first non-bookseller to wield much editorial authority over a multi-volume poetry collection. His publishers transformed the enterprise by using royal octavo volumes printed in double columns. The first section of the chapter looks into the relationship between publisher and editor, citing examples in the workplace of Mundell and Son. The second section describes the tasks of Anderson when he became editor. It notes that biographies were Anderson's most time-consuming responsibility. The third section describes Anderson's task of publication and dissemination as similar to collecting scattered gems and associating them for the benefit of the audience. The fourth section discusses the goal of Mundell and Son to publish the cheapest and most perfect edition of the British Poets. The fifth section discusses Anderson's resolve on completing his editorial tasks.
Freya Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199251827
- eISBN:
- 9780191719080
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251827.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and ...
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This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and loudest of the braying dunces, gains a moral advantage over the author who had ridiculed him. In the Lives, it is shown that Johnson articulated his preference for a Christian scale of values. Also elicited are the competing senses of 18th-century ‘condescension’ as a good and as a bad quality, dependent on whether the writer has Christian or classical precedents in mind. It teases out the motives behind Johnson's solicitous reactions to Blackmore and to Isaac Watts. The chapter concludes by discussing his commemoration of a semi-literate, indigent physician, ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet’: an example of his distinctive art of sinking.Less
This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and loudest of the braying dunces, gains a moral advantage over the author who had ridiculed him. In the Lives, it is shown that Johnson articulated his preference for a Christian scale of values. Also elicited are the competing senses of 18th-century ‘condescension’ as a good and as a bad quality, dependent on whether the writer has Christian or classical precedents in mind. It teases out the motives behind Johnson's solicitous reactions to Blackmore and to Isaac Watts. The chapter concludes by discussing his commemoration of a semi-literate, indigent physician, ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet’: an example of his distinctive art of sinking.
Brittany Powell Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461978
- eISBN:
- 9781626744943
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461978.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter seeks to explain a quixotism resulting from a perceived loss of national authenticity at the turn of the twentieth century, looking at the “lovable loser” Don Quijote, whose idealism and ...
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This chapter seeks to explain a quixotism resulting from a perceived loss of national authenticity at the turn of the twentieth century, looking at the “lovable loser” Don Quijote, whose idealism and devotion to a perceived loss of “tradition” becomes a philosophical and aesthetic model for performativity in Spain and the South as the so-called Generation of ’98 writers in Spain and the Fugitive poets and Nashville Agrarians in the South write poetry and philosophy that conceptualize a perceived loss of a performed Spanish and Southern tradition as they cope with said loss within modernity.Less
This chapter seeks to explain a quixotism resulting from a perceived loss of national authenticity at the turn of the twentieth century, looking at the “lovable loser” Don Quijote, whose idealism and devotion to a perceived loss of “tradition” becomes a philosophical and aesthetic model for performativity in Spain and the South as the so-called Generation of ’98 writers in Spain and the Fugitive poets and Nashville Agrarians in the South write poetry and philosophy that conceptualize a perceived loss of a performed Spanish and Southern tradition as they cope with said loss within modernity.
Thomas F. Bonnell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199532209
- eISBN:
- 9780191700996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532209.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
In 1805, as Cooke brought his project to an end, John Sharpe started a series called The Works of the British Poets, extending to nearly 50 years an unbroken chain of continuity: from 1765 to 1812, ...
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In 1805, as Cooke brought his project to an end, John Sharpe started a series called The Works of the British Poets, extending to nearly 50 years an unbroken chain of continuity: from 1765 to 1812, from Foulis through Sharpe. An edition of Shakespeare paved the way for ‘Sharpe's Edition of The British Theatre’. He also produced ‘British Classics’ and ‘Sharpe's Select Edition of the British Prose Writers’. Sharpe's edition moved the series forward, from a canonical collection of English verse into a full supplementary anthology of minor verse and finally the Greek and Roman classics in translation. The third section of the chapter looks at engravings and vignettes, and examines the marketing logic behind them. The last part of the chapter discusses Alexander Chalmers, publisher of A General Biographical Dictionary, Glossary to Shakespeare, an edition of George Steevens's Shakespeare, and British Essayists.Less
In 1805, as Cooke brought his project to an end, John Sharpe started a series called The Works of the British Poets, extending to nearly 50 years an unbroken chain of continuity: from 1765 to 1812, from Foulis through Sharpe. An edition of Shakespeare paved the way for ‘Sharpe's Edition of The British Theatre’. He also produced ‘British Classics’ and ‘Sharpe's Select Edition of the British Prose Writers’. Sharpe's edition moved the series forward, from a canonical collection of English verse into a full supplementary anthology of minor verse and finally the Greek and Roman classics in translation. The third section of the chapter looks at engravings and vignettes, and examines the marketing logic behind them. The last part of the chapter discusses Alexander Chalmers, publisher of A General Biographical Dictionary, Glossary to Shakespeare, an edition of George Steevens's Shakespeare, and British Essayists.
Amanda Golden (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062204
- eISBN:
- 9780813051895
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062204.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
For Anne Sexton, becoming a successful poet meant skillfully approaching various forms of media and developing strategies for teaching, critiquing poems, delivering poetry readings, and giving ...
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For Anne Sexton, becoming a successful poet meant skillfully approaching various forms of media and developing strategies for teaching, critiquing poems, delivering poetry readings, and giving interviews. This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton examines her industry and her industriousness. The five critics and five poets in this collection return to the materials of Sexton’s oeuvre to consider the development of her aesthetic, her reception, and the continuing allure of her poetry in the twenty-first century.
This Business of Words provides new approaches to Sexton’s poetry that take into account the range of contexts her work addresses. The literary critics, Jo Gill, Anita Helle, Chris Grobe, Victoria Van Hyning, and Kamran Javadizadeh, interpret Sexton’s work in relation to such topics as photography, performance, poetry readings, the role of institutions, and midcentury culture. The poets, David Trinidad, Kathleen Ossip, Jeffery Conway, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Dorothea Lasky, shed new light on Sexton’s legacy, her responses to her contemporaries, and her poetic subjects, from her well known fairy tales in Transformations to the wild spirit of her less frequently discussed series “Bestiary U.S.A.” The volume’s critical and creative perspectives often intersect, inspiring new questions about Sexton’s poems and our modes of interpreting them. As a whole, This Business of Words underscores Sexton’s vitality as she continues to inspire readers.Less
For Anne Sexton, becoming a successful poet meant skillfully approaching various forms of media and developing strategies for teaching, critiquing poems, delivering poetry readings, and giving interviews. This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton examines her industry and her industriousness. The five critics and five poets in this collection return to the materials of Sexton’s oeuvre to consider the development of her aesthetic, her reception, and the continuing allure of her poetry in the twenty-first century.
This Business of Words provides new approaches to Sexton’s poetry that take into account the range of contexts her work addresses. The literary critics, Jo Gill, Anita Helle, Chris Grobe, Victoria Van Hyning, and Kamran Javadizadeh, interpret Sexton’s work in relation to such topics as photography, performance, poetry readings, the role of institutions, and midcentury culture. The poets, David Trinidad, Kathleen Ossip, Jeffery Conway, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Dorothea Lasky, shed new light on Sexton’s legacy, her responses to her contemporaries, and her poetic subjects, from her well known fairy tales in Transformations to the wild spirit of her less frequently discussed series “Bestiary U.S.A.” The volume’s critical and creative perspectives often intersect, inspiring new questions about Sexton’s poems and our modes of interpreting them. As a whole, This Business of Words underscores Sexton’s vitality as she continues to inspire readers.
Emily Ruth Rutter
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817129
- eISBN:
- 9781496817167
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817129.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when they consider the story of race and racism in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the ...
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Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when they consider the story of race and racism in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing, if underdocumented, staple of African American communities. This book examines creative portraits of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Divided into three literary waves, the book is especially attentive to the archival contributions (and at times drawbacks) of imaginative representations of black baseball. Specifically, the book argues that African American and Euro-American novelists, playwrights, poets, and filmmakers fill in gaps and silences in recorded baseball history; democratize access to archives by sharing their research with readers; and advance countermythologies to whitewashed baseball lore. Reading representations across the literary color line also opens up a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Thus, while this book’s particular focus is black baseball, the comparative, archival mode of analysis utilized herein provides a model for analyzing literary interventions in other marginalized cultural histories as well.Less
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when they consider the story of race and racism in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing, if underdocumented, staple of African American communities. This book examines creative portraits of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Divided into three literary waves, the book is especially attentive to the archival contributions (and at times drawbacks) of imaginative representations of black baseball. Specifically, the book argues that African American and Euro-American novelists, playwrights, poets, and filmmakers fill in gaps and silences in recorded baseball history; democratize access to archives by sharing their research with readers; and advance countermythologies to whitewashed baseball lore. Reading representations across the literary color line also opens up a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Thus, while this book’s particular focus is black baseball, the comparative, archival mode of analysis utilized herein provides a model for analyzing literary interventions in other marginalized cultural histories as well.
Richard Terry
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198186236
- eISBN:
- 9780191718557
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186236.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British ...
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Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. It also analyses the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies. The book also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem, and the session-of-the-poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.Less
Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. It also analyses the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies. The book also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem, and the session-of-the-poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.
John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235156
- eISBN:
- 9781786945365
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235156.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty ...
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The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty year writing career. The following studies offer analytical research that focus on the historical context and influences surrounding Fisher’s writing, including the writer’s block he experienced in the late 1960s and his personal relationship to the city of Birmingham. The text also makes a comment on the work’s reception from both critical and public opinion and measures how well Fisher’s poetry is considered today. As well as providing contextual and factual detail, the book also concentrates on an assessment of Fisher’s varied poetic style, a manner of writing that only highlights the poet’s decision to reject the constraints of British lyrical poetry of the time, and outlines the recurring motifs and crossed boundaries present in his poetry.Less
The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty year writing career. The following studies offer analytical research that focus on the historical context and influences surrounding Fisher’s writing, including the writer’s block he experienced in the late 1960s and his personal relationship to the city of Birmingham. The text also makes a comment on the work’s reception from both critical and public opinion and measures how well Fisher’s poetry is considered today. As well as providing contextual and factual detail, the book also concentrates on an assessment of Fisher’s varied poetic style, a manner of writing that only highlights the poet’s decision to reject the constraints of British lyrical poetry of the time, and outlines the recurring motifs and crossed boundaries present in his poetry.
Richard Terry
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198186236
- eISBN:
- 9780191718557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186236.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Concentrating on the period between 1660 and 1781, this book tells how the English literary past was made. ‘Making the past’ indicates a range of scholarly or imaginative activities. Included in this ...
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Concentrating on the period between 1660 and 1781, this book tells how the English literary past was made. ‘Making the past’ indicates a range of scholarly or imaginative activities. Included in this book is a short discussion of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the most important marmoreal shrine for the consecration of literary worthies. Also discussed are a wide range of poetic genres that proved auspicious for recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session-of-the-poets poem. When it comes to prose writings, works which propound or foster versions of the literary past include tomes of antiquarian recovery, taste-forming anthologies, and the rhetorical, grammatical, and elocutionary primers, often incorporating literary gobbets, which were used in schools and academies. This book also argues for an earlier inauguration of the canon than has recently been fashionable, and looks at the canonical credentials of women writers.Less
Concentrating on the period between 1660 and 1781, this book tells how the English literary past was made. ‘Making the past’ indicates a range of scholarly or imaginative activities. Included in this book is a short discussion of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the most important marmoreal shrine for the consecration of literary worthies. Also discussed are a wide range of poetic genres that proved auspicious for recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session-of-the-poets poem. When it comes to prose writings, works which propound or foster versions of the literary past include tomes of antiquarian recovery, taste-forming anthologies, and the rhetorical, grammatical, and elocutionary primers, often incorporating literary gobbets, which were used in schools and academies. This book also argues for an earlier inauguration of the canon than has recently been fashionable, and looks at the canonical credentials of women writers.
Richard Terry
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198186236
- eISBN:
- 9780191718557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186236.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
There is no doubt that Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are a significant contribution to the scripting of the English poetic past. Latterly, however, there has been a tendency for their impact to ...
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There is no doubt that Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are a significant contribution to the scripting of the English poetic past. Latterly, however, there has been a tendency for their impact to be distorted or overstated. Martha Woodmansee, for example, has claimed not untypically that the ‘Lives of the Poets contributed decisively to the differentiation of ‘authoring’ from ordinary literary labour by establishing a pantheon of great authors whose ‘works’ differ qualitatively from the sea of mere writing’. Not only is their impact a ‘decisive’ one, but the Lives also get credited with putting in place a construct that had not previously existed (‘establishing a canon…’). The role of the Lives is not merely distinct from Woodmansee's but more nearly the opposite of it. This chapter explores the context and achievement of Johnson's Lives by taking note of their appearance in accompaniment to a serial anthology, by considering the cultural role of such large-scale poetic anthologies, and by addressing Johnson's particular contribution to the genre of literary biography.Less
There is no doubt that Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are a significant contribution to the scripting of the English poetic past. Latterly, however, there has been a tendency for their impact to be distorted or overstated. Martha Woodmansee, for example, has claimed not untypically that the ‘Lives of the Poets contributed decisively to the differentiation of ‘authoring’ from ordinary literary labour by establishing a pantheon of great authors whose ‘works’ differ qualitatively from the sea of mere writing’. Not only is their impact a ‘decisive’ one, but the Lives also get credited with putting in place a construct that had not previously existed (‘establishing a canon…’). The role of the Lives is not merely distinct from Woodmansee's but more nearly the opposite of it. This chapter explores the context and achievement of Johnson's Lives by taking note of their appearance in accompaniment to a serial anthology, by considering the cultural role of such large-scale poetic anthologies, and by addressing Johnson's particular contribution to the genre of literary biography.
Phil Bowen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311253
- eISBN:
- 9781846312496
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846312496
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the so-called Mersey Poets – Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – with unparalleled access to whom, the author has written an ...
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This book is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the so-called Mersey Poets – Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – with unparalleled access to whom, the author has written an indispensable book for anyone interested in poetry, popular culture, and society over the last forty years.Less
This book is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the so-called Mersey Poets – Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – with unparalleled access to whom, the author has written an indispensable book for anyone interested in poetry, popular culture, and society over the last forty years.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311253
- eISBN:
- 9781846312496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846312496.002
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book focuses on the literary and social identity of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – also known as the Mersey Poets – whose work was considered irreverent and sardonic, and ...
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This book focuses on the literary and social identity of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – also known as the Mersey Poets – whose work was considered irreverent and sardonic, and occupied a central niche in twentieth-century British poetry, symbolising the pop poetry movement of the period. The Mersey Poets first shot to prominence in 1967, when Tony Richardson of Penguin Books featured them in the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series. The book, titled The Mersey Sound would be a big break for the three Liverpool poets. They had distinct and widely differing achievements: McGough was known for his economy, edge, and unblinkered concerns; Henri for his preserving benevolence; and Patten for his straight-talking, sheer metaphysical charge.Less
This book focuses on the literary and social identity of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten – also known as the Mersey Poets – whose work was considered irreverent and sardonic, and occupied a central niche in twentieth-century British poetry, symbolising the pop poetry movement of the period. The Mersey Poets first shot to prominence in 1967, when Tony Richardson of Penguin Books featured them in the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series. The book, titled The Mersey Sound would be a big break for the three Liverpool poets. They had distinct and widely differing achievements: McGough was known for his economy, edge, and unblinkered concerns; Henri for his preserving benevolence; and Patten for his straight-talking, sheer metaphysical charge.
Gideon Nisbet
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199662494
- eISBN:
- 9780191761355
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662494.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter traces the continuing contestation of the Anthology in the public sphere from 1893 to 1914. The key figure is J. W. Mackail, who distilled the Anthology to a canonic 500 ‘best’ poems in ...
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This chapter traces the continuing contestation of the Anthology in the public sphere from 1893 to 1914. The key figure is J. W. Mackail, who distilled the Anthology to a canonic 500 ‘best’ poems in an edition-with-translation of 1894, Select Epigrams. Cephalas's structure was rejected for twelve new thematic ‘Chapters’, devised by Mackail but billed as the natural categories of a timeless human experience. Select Epigrams presented this dodecalogy as a quasi-epic, quasi-religious document: ‘the book of Greek life’, of which the star author was Simonides. With its emphasis on family and piety, and rhetoric of Liberal Imperialism, Select Epigrams was seized upon as the definitive Anthology for modernity. At the same time, though, a parallel tradition of dissident epigram-work, inspired by Symonds and inflected by Wilde, was making the most of the opportunities now made available by the burgeoning small press movement.Less
This chapter traces the continuing contestation of the Anthology in the public sphere from 1893 to 1914. The key figure is J. W. Mackail, who distilled the Anthology to a canonic 500 ‘best’ poems in an edition-with-translation of 1894, Select Epigrams. Cephalas's structure was rejected for twelve new thematic ‘Chapters’, devised by Mackail but billed as the natural categories of a timeless human experience. Select Epigrams presented this dodecalogy as a quasi-epic, quasi-religious document: ‘the book of Greek life’, of which the star author was Simonides. With its emphasis on family and piety, and rhetoric of Liberal Imperialism, Select Epigrams was seized upon as the definitive Anthology for modernity. At the same time, though, a parallel tradition of dissident epigram-work, inspired by Symonds and inflected by Wilde, was making the most of the opportunities now made available by the burgeoning small press movement.