The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)

In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2016
Authors:	Ben Lerner
Dimensions:	190 x 127 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	86
ISBN-13:	978-0-86547-820-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-86547-820-1
Barcode:	9780865478206

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