Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity

Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-23299-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 280 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Literature

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense. Observing Donaghy’s critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson’s systems of collective relation and “lyric unity”, this volume explores the intellectual curiosity of both poets from the classical to the contemporary, in relation to music, literature, philosophy, scientific thought, and the rituals and austerities of the transcendent. This text also explores the tensions occupying their work between craft and spontaneity, and between the intellect and intuition, that arise from a fundamental respect for form as the poet’s guiding principle. Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity exposes persuasive rhetoric and pursues a nuanced understanding of the enigmatic complexity of poetic language and its critical context. This volume interrogates valuable insights into form, language, and poetics, and clarifies and reframes these, with a focus on the creative process, for readers interested in poetry and the practical and critical perspectives of these poets.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadin, Beverley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Michael Donaghy: Form, Memory, and Oral Poetics

Form as a Shaping Force for Meaning

The Logic of Form, the Mechanics of Magic

Complexity as a Strategy

Poems in Relation

Cryptic Logistics

The Living Word

Oral Tradition as a Model

Oral Culture as a Source

Making Connections, Forging a Context

Orality on the Page

Text of an Oral Tradition

Word Perfect

The Function of Expression

Irish Traditional Music: A Performative Model

"I Told My Tale Well"

Conclusion: Rational Mystic

2. Don Paterson: Orality, Reality, and "One Big Word"

Context and Voice

Orality and Unity: Oneness of a Word

Poetic Form: Elements in Relation

Sound System

The Art of the Uncontrived

Rational Rhythms

Unity and Truth: A Relative Perspective

Borges and the Divine Utterance

"Nothing Was Broken": Redemption, Order, and Emptiness

Religion and The Absolute

Illuminating the Mundane

Conclusion: Lyric Faith

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Beverley Nadin was awarded a doctorate in Creative Writing by Newcastle University, UK, in 2019. Her poetry has won, among other prizes, second prize in the Poetry London competition and a commendation in the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition. Her poems are published in journals and anthologies including PN Review, The Rialto, Magma, The North, and Long Poem Magazine. This will be her first critical publication. She has no current academic affiliation.