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The Poem - Lyric, Sign, Metre (Paperback)
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The Poem - Lyric, Sign, Metre (Paperback)
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The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In
what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it
to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do
poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part
meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica.
Paterson looks at the writing, transmission and reading of poetry
with wit and scholarly flair, drawing together literary analysis,
linguistics, metaphysics, psychology and cognitive science in a
thorough exploration of how and why poems are composed. The Poem
takes the form of three long essays. 'Lyric' attends to the music
and sound patterns of poetry, and the way in which they work to
deepen poetic sense; 'Sign' develops a new theory of metaphor,
metonym and symbol, and looks at how ideas of 'meaning' change
under poetic conditions; 'Metre' addresses poetry's relationship to
time and to the rhythms of speech, then builds a theory of prosody
from the ground up, proposing some radical correctives to existing
metrical theory along the way. Through his various professional
guises - as major prize-winning poet, as Professor of Poetry at the
University of St Andrews and as Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan
- few are better placed to grant this insider's perspective. For
all those intrigued by the inner workings of the art form and its
fundamental secrets, The Poem will challenge, intrigue and
surprise.
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