Dowson Carol Ann Duffy

Poet for Our Times
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-41563-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten

This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by 'Duffyesque' concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of 'love, loss, and longing'; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and childhood and written for children. The book should whet the appetite of readers who know little of Duffy's work to find out more, while providing students and scholars with an in-depth analysis of the poems in their contexts. It draws on a wide range of critical works and includes an extensive list of further reading.

Jane Dowson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has published broadly on women poets, including Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-39, A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (co-authored), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry and Women's Poetry of the 1930s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dowson, Jane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Dedication;6
2;Acknowledgements;8
3;Abbreviations;10
4;Contents;12
5;Chapter 1: Poet for Our Times;15
5.1;Introduction: ‘How Poetry / Pursues the Human’;15
5.2;Life, Career, and Writing;20
5.2.1;Poetry Volumes and the Critics;23
5.2.2;Poet Laureate;31
5.3;Poetry and the Times: They Are A-Changin;33
5.3.1;Women and Poetry;36
5.4;Reading the Duffyesque;40
5.4.1;‘The Music of Being Human’;44
5.4.2;‘Word-music’;50
5.5;References;53
6;Chapter 2: Lyrics of Love, Loss, and Longing;60
6.1;‘Like this’;60
6.2;Love: ‘saying something’;65
6.2.1;Desire: ‘a flame’s fierce licks under the skin’;67
6.2.2;‘Finding the words’;73
6.3;Loss: ‘unmendable rain’;77
6.3.1;‘Memory’s caged bird won’t fly’;79
6.4;Longing: ‘an ache, here, doctor’;83
6.4.1;Post-religious Loss: ‘that small familiar pain’;85
6.4.2;Poetry as Celebration: ‘the hive is love’;93
6.5;References;95
7;Chapter 3: Voices from the 1980s and After;99
7.1;‘Just teach me / the right words’;99
7.2;‘Poweran moneyan fame’;105
7.3;‘Like a job’;108
7.4;The ‘bruised industrial sky’;112
7.4.1;Liverpool;113
7.4.2;Postmodern Love;114
7.5;The Mad and Bad: ‘our secret films’;116
7.6;Nationalisms: ‘My Country’;123
7.6.1;‘Now I am Alien’;126
7.7;References;132
8;Chapter 4: Words Between Women;134
8.1;‘The dreams / of women which will harm no one’;134
8.2;‘The Untold Want’;136
8.3;‘It does not look like me’;139
8.4;‘The Way My Mother Speaks’;144
8.5;Feminist Talking Heads: The World’s Wife (1999);146
8.6;Feminine Gospels: ‘And her pleasures were stories, true or false’;155
8.7;‘What can a woman do?’;161
8.8;References;162
9;Chapter 5: Poetry and the Public Sphere;164
9.1;Poetry Makes Something Happen;164
9.2;Poetry and the News;169
9.3;War;172
9.4;Poetry and Place;175
9.4.1;The Things-of-Nature;177
9.5;Nationhood;181
9.5.1;The ‘R’ Factor;184
9.6;Poetry Matters: ‘“It’s a perfecting of a feeling in language”’;188
9.6.1;‘Do you think it hears and heals our hearts?’;195
9.7;References;197
10;Chapter 6: Poetry About and for Childhood;200
10.1;‘Childhood is the only reality’;200
10.2; Childhood: ‘My country. // I want it back’;204
10.3; ‘Children, I remember …’;209
10.4; ‘Laureate for all the family’;218
10.5;References;221
11;Bibliography;224
12;Works by Carol Ann Duffy;224
13;Works Edited by Carol Ann Duffy;225
14;Uncollected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy;226
15;Articles and Interviews (with an Unnamed Interviewer) by Carol Ann Duffy;226
16;Critical Works (Including Interviews with a Named Interviewer);227
17;Media;239
18;References;239
19;Index;240