A Chorus Of Ears
by Denise Riley
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Pages:
144
Published:
Apr 2027
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Imprint
Picador
ISBN:
9781035095964
Essays on voice, lyric, and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets.
Originally delivered as a series of lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis our literary culture places on the person(a) of the poet, relegating their actual poetry to a second-order importance. Prize culture and the primacy of the poet--as opposed to the poem--transform criticism into a beauty contest, constraining our ability to meet the lyric on its own terms.
What, Riley asks, might be discovered about the lyric's purpose, its originary point within our language and more yet besides, when we liberate it from the persona of the author? In allowing the poem to speak, what might we hear?
Originally delivered as a series of lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis our literary culture places on the person(a) of the poet, relegating their actual poetry to a second-order importance. Prize culture and the primacy of the poet--as opposed to the poem--transform criticism into a beauty contest, constraining our ability to meet the lyric on its own terms.
What, Riley asks, might be discovered about the lyric's purpose, its originary point within our language and more yet besides, when we liberate it from the persona of the author? In allowing the poem to speak, what might we hear?
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