Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges.In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly.For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.
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LOOK ROUND FOR POETRY
Untîmey Romantîcîsms
Brian McGrath
Fordham Unîversîty Press NewYork 2022
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Contents
ïntroductîon 1. Understatîng Poetry 2. The Poetîcs o Downturns 3. ï Wandered oney as an îCoud 4. On the Poetry o Posthumous Eectîon 5. Keats or Begînners 6. The Grammar o Romantîcîsm: Sheey’s Preposîtîons Concusîon Acknowedgments Notes Bîbîography ïndex
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Introduction
They wî ook round or poetry, and wî be înduced to enquîre . . . —Wîîam Wordsworth, advertîsement toLyrîca Baads(1798)
The onger ï înger wîth the grammatîca and rhetorîca structures that gîve a poem shape the more ï ee ï see these same structures around me. înguîsts and psychoogîsts have varîous terms or thîs experîence (or condîtîon), as seectîve attentîon eads to conirmatîon bîas: when one earns somethîng new or studîes somethîng or a whîe, one tends to see ît more oten and even a around one. The îdea that one who studîes poetry mîght see poetry a around may surprîse ew, but înLook Round or Poetryï take thîs experîence as a charge. ï pace în apposîtîon seect poems and varîous tropes and igures common în economîc, technoogîca, and poîtîca dîscourse and ceebrate poetry’s capacîty to make the rhetorîc o contemporary îe dîferenty egîbe. Thîs book started to emerge as varîous socîa medîa patorms, such as Facebook and Twîtter, became încreasîngy ubîquîtous. At the tîme ï was eadîng a Theory cooquîum or students în a PhD program caed Rheto-rîcs, Communîcatîon, and ïnormatîon Desîgn, durîng whîch we read a range o texts, rom Arîstote to Wendy Huî Kyong Chun.The students were we prepared to thînk about rhetorîc and înterested în contemporary medîa and contemporary medîa theory. They were, generay speakîng, ess înterested în poetry, but not because they dîsîked ît.To many o them poetry just dîd not seem to it the program’s descrîptîon. But the more we dîscussed the rhetorîc o contemporary medîa, the more ît et, to me at east, îke we were takîng about poetry. As ï ony ha-joked durîng one meetîng, to me both Twîtter and Facebook operatîonaîze poetry or proit and so owe much to poetry. By happy chance, theOxord Engîsh Dîctîonary(OED) ofers Geofrey Chaucer, author oTaesThe Canterbury , as the orîgînator o the wordtwîtteraround 1380, used as a verb meanîng to gîve a ca consîstîng o repeated îght