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OverviewAddressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia. Full 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: 14.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.473kg ISBN: 9780198186779ISBN 10: 0198186770 Pages: 306 Publication Date: 09 August 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback 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's descriptions are eloquent. Michael Schmidt, The Independent 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. Michael Schmidt, The Independent Crawford amusingly exposes the persistent wild man pose of some poets - Frost and Yeats in particular ... He speaks up convincingly for several marginalized figures; there is an excellent discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid's later poetry. Jeremy Noel-Tod, Times Literary Supplement Endlessly fascinating and provocative book ... The Modern Poet is an important book. Impeccably researched and passionately argued, it isn't a dry contribution to bibliography but a call to imaginative action. Brian Morton, Sunday Herald Crawford's descriptions are eloquent. Michael Schmidt, The Independent 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. Michael Schmidt, The Independent Crawford amusingly exposes the persistent wild man pose of some poets - Frost and Yeats in particular ... He speaks up convincingly for several marginalized figures; there is an excellent discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid's later poetry. Jeremy Noel-Tod, Times Literary Supplement Endlessly fascinating and provocative book ... The Modern Poet is an important book. Impeccably researched and passionately argued, it isn't a dry contribution to bibliography but a call to imaginative action. Brian Morton, Sunday Herald `Crawford's descriptions are eloquent.' Michael Schmidt, The Independent `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.' Michael Schmidt, The Independent `Crawford amusingly exposes the persistent wild man pose of some poets - Frost and Yeats in particular ... He speaks up convincingly for several marginalized figures; there is an excellent discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid's later poetry.' Jeremy Noel-Tod, Times Literary Supplement `Endlessly fascinating and provocative book ... The Modern Poet is an important book. Impeccably researched and passionately argued, it isn't a dry contribution to bibliography but a call to imaginative action.' Brian Morton, Sunday Herald 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 (with Simon Armitage) of The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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