W. S. Graham, 1st Edition, 9780192842909
Hardcover
Rediscovering a forgotten genius: Graham’s poems, honed objects of language.

W. S. Graham, 1st Edition

the poem as art object

  • Hardcover

    298 pages

  • Release Date

    24 August 2022

Summary

W.S. Graham: The Poet as Art Object

On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham’s poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192842909
ISBN-10:0192842900
Series:Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
Author:David Nowell Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:298
Edition:1st
Release Date:24 August 2022
Weight:544g
Dimensions:224mm x 145mm x 20mm
About The Author

David Nowell Smith

David Nowell Smith is Associate Professor of Poetry/Poetics at the University of East Anglia. He is author of Sounding/Silence (Fordham University Press, 2013) and On Voice in Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), as well as numerous articles on the fundamental concepts of poetics.

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