Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782845623
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Book Synopsis The Matter of Rhyme by : Christopher Norris
Download or read book The Matter of Rhyme written by Christopher Norris and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of ideas, a long neglected genre, has now found a vigorous and resourceful champion in Christopher Norris. Hitherto best known as philosopher and literary theorist, he has treated that genre to a full-scale modern revival of singular scope and ambition. His poems combine intellectual agility with a verse-music both keen-eared and frequently haunting. This latest collection sees Norris at the top of his bent as lyric poet, poet-philosopher, verse-essayist, political satirist, social commentator, and skilful re-worker of traditional verse-forms to suit contemporary contexts and concerns. It exhibits all the wit and erudition that readers will have come to expect, along with a marked broadening of purview and heightened stylistic virtuosity. These poems engage with topics ranging from the personal (though never private-confessional) to the deeply enquiring (though never abstruse) and the forcefully political (though never excluding issues that transcend the narrowly partisan). Above all they make the case for viewing rhyme, meter, and prosodic structure as intrinsically a part of verse-practice and a source of everything that is most distinctive and valuable in poetry.