The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy

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Poems--specifically romantic poems, such as those by Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, and John Keats--link what goes unremembered in our reading to ethics. In "Tintern Abbey," for example, Wordsworth finds in "little . . . unremembered . . . acts" the chance to hear the "still, sad music of humanity."In The Poetics of Unremembered Acts, Brian McGrath shows that poetry's capacity to address its reader stages an ethical dilemma of continued importance...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810128497

ISBN13:9780810128491

Release Date:December 2012

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:178 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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