{"product_id":"poetry-and-the-fate-of-the-senses-paperback","title":"Poetry and the Fate of the Senses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With \u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Fate of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture. The task of poetry, she tells us, is to counter the loneliness of the mind, or to help it glean, out of the darkness of solitude, the outline of others. Poetry, she contends, makes tangible, visible, and audible the contours of our shared humanity. It sustains and transforms the threshold between individual and social existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerself an acclaimed poet, Stewart not only brings the intelligence of a critic to the question of poetry, but the insight of a practitioner as well. Her new study draws on reading from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meanings between persons. \u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Fate of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e includes close discussions of poems by Stevens, Hopkins, Keats, Hardy, Bishop, and Traherne, of the sense of vertigo in Baroque and Romantic works, and of the rich tradition of nocturnes in visual, musical, and verbal art. Ultimately, Stewart explores the pivotal role of poetry in contemporary culture. She argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Fate of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. It also won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With \u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Fate of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in culture. Herself an acclaimed poet, Stewart not only brings the intelligence of a critic to the question of poetry, but the insight of a practitioner as well. Her new study includes close discussions of poems by Stevens, Hopkins, Keats, Hardy, Bishop, and Traherne, of the sense of vertigo in Baroque and Romantic works, and of the rich tradition of nocturnes in visual, musical, and verbal art. Ultimately, she argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses in contemporary life and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Fate of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. It also won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e is the Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of three books of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as many works of literary and art criticism, including \u003ci\u003eOn Longing and Crimes of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 458\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751043399968,"sku":"9780226774145","price":73.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/034b5349b5c8e3980d3c45b6deed4434.webp?v=1779962979","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/poetry-and-the-fate-of-the-senses-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}