The resistance to poetry

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"The resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Gluck, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it."--Jacket.

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Full title :The resistance to poetry / James Longenbach.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 123 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0226492494, 9780226492490, 0226492508, 9780226492506
oclc:ocm53013037
LC Classification:PS325
Dewey Decimal:809.1

The Resistance to Poetry -- The End of the Line -- Forms of Disjunction -- Song and Story -- Untidy Activity -- The Spokenness of Poetry -- The Other Hand -- Leaving Things Out -- Composed Wonder.

Subjects

17.86 literary genres, theory of genre American poetry -- History and criticis… Criticism, interpretation, etc Englisch Gedichten Lyriktheorie Poésie Poésie -- Histoire et critique Poetry Poetry -- History and criticism USA