English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism
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Overview
When we listen to the words of a poet in the theater, or read them silently on the page, what is it that we hear? How do such crafty writers as Shakespeare or Donne, Wyatt or Yeats, Wordsworth or Lowell arrange their rhythms to make their poetry more expressive? A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence.Author Biography: George T. Wright is Regents' Professor of English emeritus at the University of Minnesota and has published widely as both a scholar and a poet. His books include Shakespeare's Metrical Art and Aimless Life, a collection of poems.
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Gathering in his retirement 13 essays he wrote over the course of a quarter century, Wright (English, U of Minnesota) emphasizes listening to the sound of literature, whether spoken aloud or half-heard in silence. In some he focuses on meter, and in others on looser repetitive elements of order that reappear but not in any strict temporal scheme. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
April 30, 2002
Publisher
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
Pages
344
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780299171940