Intimate Exposure
Essays on the Public-Private Divide in British Poetry Since 1950
Published on 30. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
237 pages
978-0-7864-4221-8 (ISBN)
Description
The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry has interacted with the public-private divide since the middle of the twentieth century. In their approach to this central but contested aspect of modern life, the essays suggest new ways not only of approaching a poem but of thinking about what gives a poem its linguistic, textual, and performative singularity. The collection discusses a wide range of poets, including Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Ted Hughes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
393 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4221-8 (9780786442218)
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Persons
Former English professor Emily Taylor Merriman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Adrian Grafe is a professor of English at Artois University in France. He was an associate professor at the Sorbonne for 10 years, has published broadly on poetry, and was named a Fellow of the English Association in 2011.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Adrian Grafe and Emily Taylor Merriman
I. STATING THE CASE
1. Poetry as "Open Diagnosis"
Marc Poree
II. STRICTLY PUBLIC?
2. Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry
Robert Archambeau
3. Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate: The Beast and the Sovereign
Laurel Peacock
4. R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Threshold
Daniel Szabo
5. Performing, Transforming, and Changing the Question: Patience Agbabi-Poet Enough!
Catherine Murphy
6. Strictly Private? Stephen Romer's "Les Portes de la Nuit"
Adrian Grafe
III. HEANEY AND THE PRIVATENESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
7. Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the Birch Grove of
Daniella Jancso
8. "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: Toward the Configuration of an Event Form
Pascale Guibert
9. "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": The Fusion of the Private and the Public in Seamus Heaney's Poetics
Torsten Caeners
IV. THE NORTH, THE NATION, AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE
10. "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison
Cecile Marshall
11. Private Voice and Public Discourse: A Poetics of Northern Dialect
Claire Helie
12. Public or Private Nation: Poetic Form and National Consciousness in the Poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill
Carole Birkan-Berz
13. Geoffrey Hill: "A public nuisance"
Emily Taylor Merriman
V. TAKING STOCK : FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO RITUAL
14. The Public Intimacy of the Poetry of Sorrow
Catherine Phillips
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Adrian Grafe and Emily Taylor Merriman
I. STATING THE CASE
1. Poetry as "Open Diagnosis"
Marc Poree
II. STRICTLY PUBLIC?
2. Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry
Robert Archambeau
3. Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate: The Beast and the Sovereign
Laurel Peacock
4. R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Threshold
Daniel Szabo
5. Performing, Transforming, and Changing the Question: Patience Agbabi-Poet Enough!
Catherine Murphy
6. Strictly Private? Stephen Romer's "Les Portes de la Nuit"
Adrian Grafe
III. HEANEY AND THE PRIVATENESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
7. Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the Birch Grove of
Daniella Jancso
8. "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: Toward the Configuration of an Event Form
Pascale Guibert
9. "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": The Fusion of the Private and the Public in Seamus Heaney's Poetics
Torsten Caeners
IV. THE NORTH, THE NATION, AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE
10. "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony Harrison
Cecile Marshall
11. Private Voice and Public Discourse: A Poetics of Northern Dialect
Claire Helie
12. Public or Private Nation: Poetic Form and National Consciousness in the Poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill
Carole Birkan-Berz
13. Geoffrey Hill: "A public nuisance"
Emily Taylor Merriman
V. TAKING STOCK : FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO RITUAL
14. The Public Intimacy of the Poetry of Sorrow
Catherine Phillips
About the Contributors
Index