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...

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Publicado en:Antioch Review Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 5 - 7
Autor principal: Hall, Judith
Formato: Editorial
Publicado: 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.