W. S. Graham - The Poem As Art Object

David Nowell Smith draws on newly available archival materials to examine the work of British poet W. S. Graham. This book views Graham's work in light of the idea of the poem as 'art object', looking at both his written and visual/mixed-media artworks.

List of contents

• 1: 'to make / An object'


• 2: 'He found his poetry arm'


• 3: 'A poem is made of words'


• 4: 'to interrupt silence into / Manmade durations'


• 5: 'my eye imprisoned by Art'


• 6: 'Speaking to you and not'


• 7: 'but I was only remembered'


• Postscript: 'Do not expect applause'


• Appendix 1: Composition Dates of Graham s Poems from Malcolm Mooney s Land and Implements in their Places


• Appendix 2: Archive Materials

About the author

David Nowell Smith is Associate Professor of Poetry/Poetics at the University of East Anglia. He is author of Sounding/Silence (Fordham University Press, 2013) and On Voice in Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), as well as numerous articles on the fundamental concepts of poetics.

Summary

David Nowell Smith draws on newly available archival materials to examine the work of British poet W. S. Graham. This book views Graham's work in light of the idea of the poem as 'art object', looking at both his written and visual/mixed-media artworks.

Product details

• Authors: Nowell Smith , David Nowell Smith, David (Associate Professor of Poetry Nowell Smith, David (Professor of Criticism Nowell Smith, David (University of East Anglia) Nowell Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192842909
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284290-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets