The Value of Poetry
Cambridge University Press, 12/3/2020
EAN 9781108429559, ISBN10: 1108429556
Hardcover, 170 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Eric Falci's The Value of Poetry offers an evaluation and critique of the literary, cultural, and political value of poetry in the twenty-first century. Falci claims that some of the most vital, significant, and enduring human notions have been voiced and held in poems. Poems marble civilizations: they catch courses of thought, tracks of feeling, and acts of speech and embed these shapes in language that is, in some fashion, poised toward the future. Falci argues that poetry is a vital medium in addressing and understanding some of the most pressing issues of our time. Ranging widely across canonical and contemporary poetry, The Value of Poetry shows how poems matter, and what poetry offers to readers in the contemporary world.
Introduction
1. Attention and Play
2. Worlds and Selves
3. Feeling Thought
4. Recollection
Conclusion.