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Local Attachments - The Province of Poetry (Hardcover)
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Local Attachments - The Province of Poetry (Hardcover)
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How can poems so firmly attached to particular regions speak to
readers far away, who might have no knowledge of the places
featuring in the work? Why do writers turn to their own communities
for materials? In this thought-provoking and beautifully written
book, Fiona Stafford explores the relationship between the local,
the national, and the global through the consideration of works by
writers whose feeling for place is especially evident. Heaney,
Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Lamb, and Dickens are key figures in the
development of a new kind of literature that discovered universal
meaning in local truth.
Local Attachments begins with Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture,
'Crediting Poetry', which is at once a celebration of local work in
a global context and a passionate defence of the place of lyric
poetry in modern society. The focus then shifts to the Romantic
period, when local detail ceased to be regarded as a sign of
limitation and the idea that it is essential to art with any
aspiration to permanence became established in British and Irish
culture. Stafford explores both the presence of the local in
literary texts by a wide range of writers and the cultural,
philosophical and political contexts that might have contributed to
this phenomenon. Wordsworth's creative recovery in the Lake
District is an exemplary case, illuminating both Heaney's work and
that of his immediate contemporaries and heirs. Since Wordsworth is
a foundational figure, the book traces his efforts to achieve a
poetry adequate to very difficult contemporary circumstances by
returning to his native hills to create work that might live. His
own project drew vital inspiration from the poetry of Burns and
also found corroboration in the work Scott, so the book examines
their independent explorations of the creative benefits - and
problems attending - local attachment. It also considers the
meaning of Burns and Wordsworth's local poems for those in very
different circumstances - London writers such as Keats, Lamb and
Dickens, whose works are considered in some detail in their own
right and as representative of the implications of the great
Romantic discovery of the local. The book concludes by addressing
the continuing appeal of the local in modern, urban society and
reaffirms the vital importance of poetry as a response to social
crises.
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