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Poetry & Responsibility (Paperback)
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Poetry & Responsibility (Paperback)
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This study by Neil Corcoran considers the kinds of responsibility
which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it
makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and
personal. It treats its theme in British, Irish and American poets
and in some influential foreign-language poets available in
influential English translations. The book discusses the poetry of
the First World War and the Cold War in such poets as Owen,
Rosenberg, Pasternak, Zbigniew Herbert and Robert Lowell; the
poetry and politics of modern Ireland in Yeats, MacNeice, Heaney
and others; and poetry's relations with prose, painting and song in
poets including Frank O'Hara, Ted Hughes and Bob Dylan. It focuses
particularly on forms of modern elegy. Poetry & Responsibility
includes such topics as the conflicting impulses in Owen between
his obligations as a soldier and as a poet; Yeats's gradual
creation of one of his greatest poems out of his responsibilities
as an Irish schools inspector; Heaney's requirement that poetry
make an 'apology' for itself; O'Hara's deployment of a camp
sensibility in the interests of writing a politics of 1950s Black
American culture; Herbert's rewriting of Hamlet as a reading of
Warsaw Pact Poland; and the political and aesthetic significance of
Dylan's restless self-revision. The book argues that exemplary
modern lyric poetry can be shown to resist various forms of
accommodation or appropriation. In its strategies of opposition, it
becomes what Auden calls it in his elegy for Yeats: 'A way of
happening, a mouth.'
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