{"product_id":"look-round-for-poetry-untimely-romanticisms-paperback","title":"Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his 1798 Advertisement to \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry \u003c\/i\u003etransforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.\"\u003cb\u003e--Anahid Nersessian\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eKeats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.\"--\u003cb\u003eJonathan Culler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his 1798 Advertisement to \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry \u003c\/i\u003etransforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly.\u003cbr\u003eFor poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52696222466355,"sku":"9780823299799","price":60.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SEFCaUR5ZjZHaDVaMStPcVJpbnN3dz09.webp?v=1763103661","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/look-round-for-poetry-untimely-romanticisms-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}