{"product_id":"poetry-in-theory-isbn-9780631225539","title":"Poetry in Theory","description":"\u003ci\u003ePoetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000\u003c\/i\u003e brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage with broader questions about aesthetics, language, culture and imagination.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes texts by poets, critics, theorists and philosophers, ranging from Ezra Pound to Jacques Derrida.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTexts in translation from French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian are presented alongside the work of writers from Britain, Ireland, the United States, Africa, India and the Caribbean.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach text is accompanied by a brief biographical and thematic introduction.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA system of cross-referencing points up significant connections and disagreements between the texts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a thematic index and chronology.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: 1900-20.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Symbolism of Poetry: W.B. Yeats (1900).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Letters: Rainer Maria Rilke (1903, 1907, 1925).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreative Writers and Daydreaming: Sigmund Freud (1908).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomanticism and Classicism: T. E. Hulme (1911).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature: Filippo Marinetti (1912).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoet Yeats: Rabindrantah Tagore (1912).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Frost: Edward Thomas (1914).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry as Spoken Art: Amy Lowell (1917).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Spirit and the Poets: Guillaume Apollinaire (1917).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Retrospect: Ezra Pound (1918).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Poetry: Tristan Tzara (1919).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Poetry and On Contemporary Poetry: Velimir Khlebnikov (1919\/20).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition and the Individual Talent: T. S. Eliot (1919).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD. H. Lawrence Preface to New Poems (1920).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue to Kora in Hell: William Carlos Williams (1920).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: 1921-40.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Aims and Theories: Hart Crane (1925).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain: Langston Hughes (1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow are Verses Made: Vladimir Mayakovsky (1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience and Poetry: I. A. Richards (1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Survey of Modernist Poetry: Robert Graves and Laura Riding (1928).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven Types of Ambiguity: William Empson (1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetic Process: Kenneth Burke (1931).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry’s Evidence and Automatic Writing: Paul Eluard and Andre Breton (1932\/33).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Bearings in English Poetry: F. R. Leavis (1932).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLorca Play and the Theory of Duende: Frederico Garcia (1933).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry and Grammar: Gertrude Stein (1935).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoets with History and Poets Without History: Marina Tsvetaeva (1935).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernism: Walter Benjamin (1938).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Figure a Poem Makes: Robert Frost (1939).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry and Abstract Thought: Paul Valery (1939).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: 1941-60.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Lectures on Poetry: Martin Heidegger (1941\/44\/46).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: Wallace Stevens (1942).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeeling and Precision: Marianne Moore (1944).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry and Knowledge: Aime Cesaire (1945).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProjective Verse: Charles Olson (1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Statement for Poetry: Louis Zukofsky (1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs There Any Poetic Writing: Roland Barthes (1953).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Concrete Universal: W. C. Wimsatt (1954).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExcerpts from Seminars and Papers: Jacques Lacan (1954\/55\/57).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Modern Poetry: Donald Davie (1955).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMallarme’s Experience: Maurice Blanchot (1955).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasure Principle\/Writing Poems: Philip Larkin (1957\/64).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Lyric Poetry and Society: Theodor Adorno (1957).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics: Roman Jakobson (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: 1961-80.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat I See in the Maximus Poems: Edward Dorn (1961).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersonism: A Manifesto: Frank O’Hara (1961).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the Mode of the Music Changes\/Abstraction in Poetry: Allan Ginsberg (1961\/62).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poet and the City: W. H. Auden (1962).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall\/State\/Meant: Imamu Baraka (1964\/65).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sense of Measure: Robert Creeley (1964).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Invisible Avant-Garde: John Ashbery (1968).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosure and Anti-Closure in Modern Poetry: Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1968).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic Language, Poetics of Language: Gerard Genette (1969).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntentional Structure of the Romantic Image: Paul de Man (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Muse of History: Derek Walcott (1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ethics of Linguistics: Julia Kristeva (1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Modest Proposal: Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuity in Language: Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: 1980-2000.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poe-etic Effect: Soshana Felman (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dollar Value of Poetry: Charles Bernstein (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Hope: Czeslaw Milosz (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlood, Bread and Poetry: Adrienne Rich (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Deed of Writing: Richard Poirier (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven Under the Rine of Terror: Jeremy Cronin (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChe cos’e la poesia: Jacques Derrida (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Homosexual Lyric: Thomas Yingling (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAvant-Garde or Endgame: Marjorie Perloff (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Woman Poet: Her Dilemma: Evan Boland (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Redress of Poetry: Seamus Heaney (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoul Says: Helen Vendler (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThematic Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Poetry has always provided the most severe test for theory, and this rich, wide-ranging anthology shows just how fruitful the encounter between the two has been. Jon Cook’s excellent collection should prove a salutary lesson for all those who assume, utterly against the evidence, that literary theory has had nothing to say about the shape of the sentences and the texture of the verse.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Manchester \u003cb\u003eJon Cook \u003c\/b\u003eis Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of American and English Literature. His published work includes \u003ci\u003eRomanticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e (1981)\u003ci\u003e, William Hazlitt: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and numerous essays on Romanticism, critical and cultural theory, and contemporary writing\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000\u003c\/i\u003e brings key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. 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