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Christopher Norris - Matter of Rhyme, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Matter of Rhyme

Verse-Music and the Ring of Ideas

Av Christopher Norris

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The poetry of ideas, a long neglected genre, has now found a vigorous and resourceful champion in Christopher Norris. Hitherto best known as philosopher and literary theorist, he has treated that genre to a full-scale modern revival of singular scope and ambition. His poems combine intellectual agility with a verse-music both keen-eared and frequently haunting. This latest collection sees Norris at the top of his bent as lyric poet, poet-philosopher, verse-essayist, political satirist, social commentator, and skilful re-worker of traditional verse-forms to suit contemporary contexts and concerns. It exhibits all the wit and erudition that readers will have come to expect, along with a marked broadening of purview and heightened stylistic virtuosity. These poems engage with topics ranging from the personal (though never private-confessional) to the deeply enquiring (though never abstruse) and the forcefully political (though never excluding issues that transcend the narrowly partisan). Above all they make the case for viewing rhyme, meter, and prosodic structure as intrinsically a part of verse-practice and a source of everything that is most distinctive and valuable in poetry.
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Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cardiff in Wales, and the author of more than forty books on various topics in philosophy, literary theory, music, and the history of ideas, including most recently, Deconstruction After All and For the Tempus-Fugitives, published under the Critical Voices series, in association with Sussex Academic Press.

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Christopher Norris is one of the most erudite, original and adventurous English-language poets of our time. -- Terry Eagleton, Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of LancasterChris Norriss revival of the verse-essay and verse-monologue is a rich feast of wit, erudition, and inventiveness, nicely spiced with hard-hitting satire, caustic humour, and touches of lyrical affection. Here is a distinctive poetic voice, comfortable in its medium, unflaggingly readable, offering hours of pleasure and reflection. A true delight! -- Peter Lamarque, Professor of Philosophy, University of York

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