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Author Aji, Helene

Title Selected Poems : From Modernism to Now
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary Complete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When the selection occurs during the author's lifetime, may one assume that the author was involved? What motivates the choice of one poem over another? How do readers' preferences influence this choice? ..
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Subject Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Literature publishing -- History -- Congresses
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature publishing
Poetry, Modern
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kilgore-Caradec, Jennifer
ISBN 9781443845847
1443845841
1299646476
9781299646476