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The Poet's Mistake
Erica McAlpine
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry—and about how we read
Keats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Erica McAlpine gathers together for the first time numerous instances of these errors, from well-known historical gaffes to never-before-noticed grammatical incongruities, misspellings, and solecisms. But unlike the many critics and other readers who consider such errors felicitous or essential to the work itself, she makes a compelling case for calling a mistake a mistake, arguing that denying the possibility of error does a disservice to poets and their poems.
Tracing the temptation to justify poets' errors from Aristotle through Freud, McAlpine demonstrates that the study of poetry's mistakes is also a study of critical attitudes toward mistakes, which are usually too generous—and often at the expense of the poet's intentions. Through remarkable close readings of Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Clare, Dickinson, Crane, Bishop, Heaney, Ashbery, and others, The Poet's Mistake shows that errors are an inevitable part of poetry's making and that our responses to them reveal a great deal about our faith in poetry—and about how we read.
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Anecdote, Words Worth, Literary criticism, Etymology, Pun, Robert Browning, Grammar, Punctuation, William Shakespeare, Hart Crane, Poetry, Stanza, Suggestion, Rhetoric, Malapropism, J. L. Austin, Criticism, Jonathan Bate, Ars Poetica (Horace), Rhyme, Explanation, Analogy, Usage, Imagery, Thought, Writer, Suspension of disbelief, Seriousness, Ambiguity, Couplet, Pathetic fallacy, Sonnet, Boredom, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Literature, Romanticism, John Ashbery, Carelessness, Pippa Passes, Prose, Seamus Heaney, Determination, Emily Dickinson, Absurdity, Allegory, Christopher Ricks, S. (Dorst novel), The Faerie Queene, Solecism, Subjectivity, Author, Twat, The Other Hand, Biography, Publication, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Critical Essays (Orwell), Metaphor, Verb, Irony, Allusion, Ambivalence, Poet, John Clare, Narrative, Correction (novel), Pedant, Writing, Novel