Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen

by Peter Robinson

Poetry, Poets, Readers is a defense of poetry against the protective moves which claim that poets never lie because they never affirm, or that their poems exist in a separate "world." Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199251134
• ISBN13: 9780199251131
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"