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About this book
This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his 'conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure' (
TLS) as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries to identify a 'common sense' approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous gestures, questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, asserting certain fundamental qualities that separate the genre from near-neighbours such as prose and song lyrics, examining who poetry is written for and its values in contemporary society. Above all, these are personal essays that enquire into the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the point of view of a dedicated reader, a practising writer and a lifelong champion of its power and potential.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet
- 2 Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation, and âA Final Revelation of Horrible Nothingnessâ
- 3 On Lists
- 4 Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
- 5 We Need to Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 6 The Hawks and the Doves: Raptors and Rapture in the Poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes
- 7 Like, Elizabeth Bishop
- 8 Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
- 9 Damned if He Does and Damned if He Doesnât? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 10 âUndisfigured by False or Vicious Ornamentsâ: Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
- 11 âWhen I Heard the Learnâd Astronomerâ
- CODA. Ninety-five Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright