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A Living Language - Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (Paperback)
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A Living Language - Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (Paperback)
Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series
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In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle
University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and
practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the
university. The lectures are then published in book form by
Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what
the poets themselves think about their own subject. David
Constantine's three lectures have to do with the chief end and
means of poetry: a lively and effective language. In the first,
Translation Is Good For You, drawing mainly on the life, letters
and poems of Keats, he considers translation as a way to a poetic
identity and a language of one's own. In the second, Use and
Ornament, Constantine looks at the particular case of a poet,
Brecht, who wanted his writing to be useful but who understood
better than most what the peculiar resources and responsibilities
of the lyric poem are Wilfred Owen and Keith Douglas are also
considered in this context. The third lecture, Poetry of the
Present, largely concerned with Walt Whitman and D.H. Lawrence,
discusses the ambition of free verse to convey the abundance and
quickness of life in the truest (liveliest) way. The sonnets and
other fixed forms used by Rilke are offered as an alternative. In
all three lectures there is a continual effort to define the good
effects a poem may have when, by whatever means, it achieves its
ends.
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