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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Crawford (Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.401kg ISBN: 9780199269327ISBN 10: 0199269327 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 05 February 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1: The Invention of the Modern Poet 2: Acts of Judgement: Making a National Body of Poetry 3: Scholar-Gipsies 4: Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge 5: Men, Women, and American Classrooms Coda: The Poet's Work IndexReviewsCrawford has undertaken an exhilarating (and risky) experiment in combining the modes and idioms of conventional literary history and practical criticism with disciplinary reflection, personal testimony, and polemic thrust. The Modern Poet is a book to ponder but also to be welcomed, argued with, enjoyed, and--above all--read: we should all be delighted at the possibility and the prospect of renewed commerce between what David Hume called 'the learned and the conversible worlds.' --Modern Language Quarterly<br> This book opens intellectual borders.... Crawford comes out as a poet in the first person, breaking with 'impersonality', demanding a place in the story.... This 'I' makes the book beguiling and accountable. --The Independent<br> This is a very good book. Crawford illuminates everything he touches on, and has produced a modern literary history that pays due attention to the institutions of literature, education, scholarship and publication.... Robert Crawford...is also one of the most interesting poets writing in Britain today. --English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920<br> <br> Crawford has undertaken an exhilarating (and risky) experiment in combining the modes and idioms of conventional literary history and practical criticism with disciplinary reflection, personal testimony, and polemic thrust. The Modern Poet is a book to ponder but also to be welcomed, argued with, enjoyed, and--above all--read: we should all be delighted at the possibility and the prospect of renewed commerce between what David Hume called 'the learned and the conversible worlds.' --Modern Language Quarterly<br> This book opens intellectual borders.... Crawford comes out as a poet in the first person, breaking with 'impersonality', demanding a place in the story.... This 'I' makes the book beguiling and accountable. --The Independent<br> This is a very good book. Crawford illuminates everything he touches on, and has produced a modern literary history that pays due attention to the institutions of literature, education, scholarship and publication.... Robert Crawford...is also one Author InformationRobert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews, and author of four volumes of poetry and four books of criticism. He is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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