Argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures. While giving some attention to this subgenre, this book shifts the focus to the ways in which visual form manifests itself in 'traditional' verse, exami…
Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.
Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.
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,…
Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of professional writing, the co…
Richard Bradford's highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex friendships in literary history and examines the fallout on relationships and on literature itself. Novelists, poets, and playwrights live double lives. When they fall out with each other t…
"Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as work…