The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

Sean Pryor (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

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English

Cambridge University Press
06 June 2024

Poetry; Literary theory; Literary companions

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social and cultural lives. It examines the poem in the archive and in the digital sphere, as well as in relation to decolonization and global capitalism. The chapters in this volume range across both canonical and non-canonical poems, poems from the past and the present, and poems by a diverse set of poets. This book will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the poem.

Edited by: Sean Pryor (University of New South Wales Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781009498906
ISBN 10: 1009498908
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I. Ideas of the Poem: 1. Singularity Derek Attridge; 2. Genre Steven Yao; 3. Poem / song Boris Maslov; 4. Poem / novel Emily Allen and Dino Felluga; 5. Poem / concept David Nowell Smith; 6. The poem in translation Peter Robinson; Part II. Forms of the Poem: 7. Voice Rosinka Chaudhuri; 8. Rhythm Eric Weiskott; 9. Image Kristin Grogan; 10. Sound Christopher Nealon; 11. Diction Alexis Chema; 12. Style Sean Pryor; Part III. The Poem in the World: 13. Decolonizing the poem Tsitsi Jaiji; 14. The poem as world Jahan Ramazani; 15. The poem and its audiences Arka Chattopadhyay and Anuparna Mukherjee; 16. The poem in the archive Ruth Abbott; 17. The poem and the commodity Ruth Jennison; 18. The poem in the digital age Mike Chasar.

Sean Pryor is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New South Wales. His books include Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World (2017), his articles have appeared in journals such as ELH and Modernism/modernity, and he was an Associate Editor for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (2022).