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A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures about?
This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his 'conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure' ( <i>TLS</i>) as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries to identify a 'common sense' approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous gestures, questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, asserting certain fundamental qualities that separate the genre from near-neighbours
Who reads A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simon Armitage
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571357390
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Poetry, English, Irish, & Scottish Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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