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Poetry - The Literary Agenda (Paperback)
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Poetry - The Literary Agenda (Paperback)
Series: Literary Agenda
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about
the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and
about the state of literary education inside schools and
universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been
contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is
dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for
thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by
the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized
explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even
greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social
attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may
leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking
merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time
for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value
of literary reading.
In this fascinating addition to the Literary Agenda series, David
Constantine argues that poetry matters. It matters for individuals
and for the society they are members of. He asserts that poetry is
not for the few but for the many, and belongs and can only thrive
among them, speaks of and to their concerns. The Poet considers
both the writing and the reading of poetry, which the Constantine
views as kindred activities. He examines what goes into the writing
of a poem and considers what good there is in reading it.
Constantine also considers translation, arguing that great benefit
comes to the native language from dealings with the foreign; also,
that all reading is a form of translation - of texts into the lives
we lead. Altogether, The Poet is an attempt, with many quotations,
to show how poetry works, what its responsibilities are, and how it
may help us in our real circumstances now.
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