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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction [#614]
Poetry: A Very Short Introduction [#614]
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詩人は「世界の非公認の立法者」であり、詩は『真理』(パーシー・ビッシュ・シェリー『A Defense of Poetry(詩の擁護)』1840年より)といわれるように、poetryほど多くの観念的な意味を持つ英単語はほかにないかもしれません。詩に普遍性、あるいは用途や責任といったものはあるのでしょうか。詩とは何かという疑問に答えるのは容易ではありません。古代ギリシアから今日まで「詩」と呼ばれてきた、文学のさまざまな形態を紹介し、詩の定義について考え、またその価値を問う今日の議論を考察します。
  

  • Discusses what poetry is, and what it is for, with examples from both contemporary and ancient poets
  • Examines the contemporary debates surrounding the value and universality of poetry.
  • From distinguished modern poet and literary critic, Bernard O'Donoghue.

        
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it—it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this—such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', and that poetry is 'a higher truth'. 
    
In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry'—from the Greeks to the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poetry is for, and considers contemporary debates on its value. Is there a universality to poetry? And does it have a duty of public utility and responsibility? 

目次: 

Introduction
1: Truths universally acknowledged
2: Poetry's areas of authority and aptitude
3: The language of poetry and its particular devices
4: The kinds of poetry and their contexts
5: Poets and readers
Conclusion
Further Reading
Index

著者について: 

Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. Also a poet and a literary critic, his poetry collection Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus, 1995) was awarded the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has authored and edited several titles, including The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (CUP, 2008) and Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection (Faber, 2015). In 2006, his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin.

"...achieves an air of indispensability, as both a guidebook for the enquiring beginner, and as a handbook of poetic values for the determined practitioner." - Simon Armitage
    

"Everyone near the beginning of their life in poetry will want to have this book, and everyone further down the track will value it as a stimulation." - Andrew Motion
    

"A bold encounter with the questions that make his subject so compelling." - Professor Stephen Regan, Durham University

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199229116

著者: 
Bernard O'Donoghue
ページ
160 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2019年09月
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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction [#614]

Poetry: A Very Short Introduction [#614]

Poetry: A Very Short Introduction [#614]