Sincerity′s Shadow - Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetr
Self-consciousness In British Romantic And Mid-twentieth-century American Poetry
- Editore:
Harvard University Press
- EAN:
9780674011885
- ISBN:
0674011880
- Pagine:
- 256
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Sincerity′s Shadow - Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetr
From the Conclusion "In spite of modern experiments in communal authorship, writing poetry remains one of the most individual of acts, and yet, because it provides the ground upon which the paradoxes of self-consciousness can move most freely, one of the acts most skeptical about the authority of any individual claim to self-understanding. . . . In undertaking its experiments, poetry may separate itself from certain contexts (economic, political, historical), but is itself as local and concrete as these contexts, an experience as well as a meditation on our experiences. In its particularity, its flexibility, its sensual and sonic complexity, its consideration of the extra-rational experiences of pleasure and desire, and above all in the ways in which it speaks with both more and less authority, more and less presence than an actual human voice, poetry offers us the experience of the unknown at the core of proposed self-knowledge. This is lyric poetry's enduring -- though not sole -- claim on us."
