On Poetics
Selected from the DuPlessis essay ‘On Poetics: pleasures, polemics, practices, stakes’ by Robert Hampson for this blog.
Teaching Through Imitation
In Teaching through Imitation you will find an essay by Thomas Karshan on the history, theory, and practice of imitation in relation to his Ludic Literature MA module, an account by Will Rossiter of his use of imitation in his final-year undergraduate module ‘The Italian renaissance’, and an essay by Tim MacGabhann on the experience of studying literature through imitation.
The Dark Path / There and Here
By David Miller with an introduction by Matt Martin.The UK poetry scene has lately become increasingly interested in interdisciplinary modes like creative criticism. The time seems right for a reminder that David Miller has pioneered such practices. The Dark Path meditates on contemporary poet Fanny Howe’s articulation of ‘negative theology’, the tradition of considering the divine in terms of what God is not, rather than what God is. There and Here addresses 19th-century French writer Gérard de Nerval.
Gathering from the Past
‘Gathering from the Past’ by Robert Sheppard, part of ‘Poetics: A Blog’
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