About Suffering - On Louise Gluck

List of contents

1. The kindest suffering; 2. Poets like Orpheus; 3. Revenge; 4. Distance; 5. Mature poets; 6. Narcissism; 7. The mirror and the lens; 8. Icarus; 9. Human position; 10. All alike; 11. In the garden; 12. Empty hands; 13. More in sorrow than in anger; 14. Back from the romantics; 15. 'The Wild Iris'; 16. Again and again.

Summary

Poetry has always courted suffering. Surveying a wide range of texts about poetry's relationship to suffering, and drawing surprising links between very different voices, this book situates Louise Glück both in the tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke's lyrical suffering and in the tradition of T. S. Eliot's impersonal approach to poetry.

Foreword

Poets, we've been told, sing their suffering and there can be no poetry without suffering. Louise Glück begged to differ.

Product details

• Authors: Christos Hadjiyiannis, Christos (University of Regensburg) Hadjiyiannis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009539456
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0953945-6
• No. of pages: 78
• Series: Elements in Poetry and Poetics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets