Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Dialogical poetics; 1. Minimal interpretation (William Blake, "The Sick Rose"); 2. Figurative language (Emily Dickinson, "I started Early"); 3. Historical context (Wilfred Owen, "Futility"); 4. Intellectual and cultural context (John Milton, "At aSolemn Music"); 5. Situated subjects (Langston Hughes, "Lenox Avenue:Midnight" and "Song for a Black Girl"); 6. Poetic commentary (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116); 7. Modernist poetry and discursive logic (T.S. Eliot, "The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock").

8. The poetry of ellipsis (Denise Riley, "A Nueva York")9. Translation (Charles Baudelaire, "Au Lecteur"; Federico Garc��aLorca, "Romance de la luna, luna, luna"; Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus II.13"); Index.

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call ""dialogical poetics."" This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and ""minimally interpret"" poems - reading them with careful regard for what the poem can be shown to actually say, in detail and as a whole, from opening to closure. Based on a series of emails, the book explores a numbe

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