What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of
poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making
experience and suffering understood by others? With "Poetry and the
Fate of the Senses," Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic
in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture.
The task of poetry, she tells us, is to counter the loneliness of
the mind, or to help it glean, out of the darkness of solitude, the
outline of others. Poetry, she contends, makes tangible, visible,
and audible the contours of our shared humanity. It sustains and
transforms the threshold between individual and social existence.
Herself an acclaimed poet, Stewart not only brings the intelligence
of a critic to the question of poetry, but the insight of a
practitioner as well. Her new study draws on reading from the
ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates
meanings between persons. "Poetry and the Fate of the Senses"
includes close discussions of poems by Stevens, Hopkins, Keats,
Hardy, Bishop, and Traherne, of the sense of vertigo in Baroque and
Romantic works, and of the rich tradition of nocturnes in visual,
musical, and verbal art. Ultimately, Stewart explores the pivotal
role of poetry in contemporary culture. She argues that poetry can
counter the denigration of the senses and can expand our
imagination of the range of human expression.
"Poetry and the Fate of the Senses" won the 2004 Truman Capote
Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin,
administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa
Writers' Workshop. It also won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002
Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism.
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