How We Experience Modern Verse

by Eric Purchase

Poetry moves us. Sometimes a poem changes our life. Then we analyze it as a cultural artifact with no special connection to us. An extensive critical apparatus enables us to develop sophisticated interpretations, but we dismiss as "idiosyncratic" even life-changing experiences of poetry. We need an apparatus to unfold our experience of reading poems into a more effective relationship with the world. Modern poets in particular wrote prophetic verse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032448822
• ISBN13: 9781032448824
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"