Presented By: Department of English Language and Literature
“What Is Poetry?”
A Lecture by Professor Virginia
Lecture and Conversation
3222 Angell Hall
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What is poetry? You probably have some idea, or at least you know it when you see it. You probably also know that this is a trick question. In practice, it’s not hard to know a poem when you see one: it appears in lines or it rhymes or it’s called poetry even if it looks like prose. In theory, everyone knows you are not supposed to answer the question. This talk will address the relation between determinate practice and indeterminate theory in modern (post-eighteenth-century) Anglo-American poetics.
3222 Angell Hall
RSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/login?r=/track/event/session/88784
What is poetry? You probably have some idea, or at least you know it when you see it. You probably also know that this is a trick question. In practice, it’s not hard to know a poem when you see one: it appears in lines or it rhymes or it’s called poetry even if it looks like prose. In theory, everyone knows you are not supposed to answer the question. This talk will address the relation between determinate practice and indeterminate theory in modern (post-eighteenth-century) Anglo-American poetics.
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