1st Edition

Poetry as Discourse

By Antony Easthope Copyright 2003
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This study presents insights into poetry as discourse ooking at language, conventual literary theory, and then a detailed look at the iambic pentameter, ballads in English Poetry, looking at Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. Also included is commentary on transparency looking at Pope's The Rape of the Lock, and Romanticism in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and Wordworth's Tintern Abbey. Before ending on the future of poetry there is also a section on the Modernism of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

    Part 1 A Theory of Discourse; Chapter 1 Discourse as Language; Chapter 2 Discourse as Ideology; Chapter 3 Discourse as Subjectivity; Part 2 English Poetry; Chapter 4 Lambic Pentameter; Chapter 5 The Feudal Ballad; Chapter 6 The Founding Moment; Chapter 7 Transparency as Explicit Ideal; Chapter 8 The Continuities of Romanticism; Chapter 9 The Modernism of Eliot and Pound; Chapter 10 A Future for Poetry;

    Biography

    Anthony Easthope