Deaths of the poets
31,99 $

Deaths of the poets

MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS


Deaths of the poets

MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS

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Livre en anglais
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Résumé
From Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death-warrant in a smudge of arterial blood; from Dylan Thomas’ eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen or John Berryman’s leap from a bridge onto the frozen Mississippi, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post-Romantic myth of the dissolute drunken poet – exemplified by Thomas and made iconic by his death in New York – has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in-control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just a myth, or is there some essential truth behind it: that great poems only come when a poet's life is pushed right to an emotional knife-edge of acceptability, safety, security? What is the price of poetry? In this book, two contemporary poets undertake a series of journeys – across Britain, America and Europe – to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, honouring inspirational writers, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth. The result is a book that is, in turn, enlightening and provocative, eye-wateringly funny and powerfully moving.
Détails
Titre
Deaths of the poets
Éditeur
Prix
31,99 $
Format Poche
Non
Langue
Anglais/English
Date de publication
2017-03-28
ISBN
9780224097543
Code Interne
2204081
Numéro de produit
12043846

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