Modern Poetic Practice: Structure and Genesis (American University Studies; Series III, Comparative Literature, Vol 22)

By Peter Baker

This book attempts to develop a generative criticism of poetic practice. The order of presentation follows a certain model for how the poem comes into being. Poetic practice as it is actualized in the work of the creative imagination stems from: memory as the place where the poem arises among the conflicts of the imagination; absence or the loss which weighs on the utterance and gives it urgency; desire as the force structuring the poem according to the subject's need; knowing or how the subject's experience of the world and other people finds expression; and style or how the poem exemplifies a compassionate understanding. Poets whose work is examined include Hardy, Mallarm , Williams, Ungaretti, Apollinaire, Saint-John Perse, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820403431
• ISBN13: 9780820403434
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 222 Pages