The Hatred of Poetry Lerner BenPaperback
The Hatred of Poetry Lerner BenPaperback No art has been denounced as often as poetry. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. It's even bemoaned by…
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The Hatred of Poetry Lerner BenPaperback
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. It's even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore.
He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore.In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the
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