What to Write, What to Hate.
Here the author reflects on the purpose of poetry. According to Henry James, poetry is a criticism of life in conditions so peculiar that they are the sign by which we know poetry. The author argues that a poet may contend that the poem needed to be written, that necessity lubricates creation. The a...
| Publicado en: | Antioch Review Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 5 - 7 |
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| Formato: | Editorial |
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Antioch Review, Inc.
Winter2009
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| Sumario: | Here the author reflects on the purpose of poetry. According to Henry James, poetry is a criticism of life in conditions so peculiar that they are the sign by which we know poetry. The author argues that a poet may contend that the poem needed to be written, that necessity lubricates creation. The author concludes that poetry has a global weirding all its own. |
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