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9781933146607 Academic Inspection Copy

Clearing the Tangled Wood

Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World
  • ISBN-13: 9781933146607
  • Publisher: ACADEMICA PRESS
    Imprint: ACADEMICA PRESS
  • By James Lawless
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 28/11/2009
  • Format: Hardback 176 pages Weight: 375g
  • Categories: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]
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This monograph is a study of poetry as an alternative way of seeing the world and of obtaining insights into realities that enable the reader to see the vast otherness that usually eludes. The process of creativity is discussed. The influences of other disciplines on the heightening of consciousness are described as well as methodologies of observation that have been employed in the last 100 years are elucidated. Attention is paid to the specific contribution of modern Irish poetry especially in the role of the poet in society. Works of three non English poets (Salinas, Lorca and Pasternak) are appraised in some detail and the role of these three poets in their societies discussed with a view to the vindication of poetic insight and illumination against societal forces that would destroy the poet and his poetry. The final section of the work deals with poetry as an art form uniquely able to interpret a fragmented and arid post modern world. Irish Research Series, No.56
"This is a sophisticated and engaging study of why poetry matters to us now.Reading poetry, Lawless admirably concludes, is a holistic act of self-preservation in a disjointed world." - Katie Donovan, The Irish Times
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