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Reading Poems Silently And Reading Them Aloud Involve Two Separate Dimensions Of Understanding, And Unless We Accept That Silent Poetics And Spoken Performance Create Tensions And Ambiguities That Can Only Be Resolved Through The Readers' Control Of Both Experiences, We Will Perpetuate An Inaccurate Perception Of How Poetry Works. Such A Challenge To The Traditional Communicative Priorities Of Speech And Writing Is Probably Familiar To Readers Of Concrete Poetry And Poststructuralist Theory, But It Occurred, With Startling Consequences, In The Work Of A Number Of Eighteenth-century Critics. These Writers Found Themselves Dealing With A Poetic Tradition Barely 150 Years Old, And They Lacked A Single Methodology Or Code Of Interpretation Through Which They Might Deal With The Complex Relation Between Structure And Effect.^ This Sense Of Uncertainty Was Further Intensified By The Appearance Of Paradise Lost, A Poem That Fractured The Fragile Interpretive Conventions Of The Late Seventeenth Century. The Most Valuable Critical Work Of The Period Has Been Marginalized By Modern Literary History Because Of Its Ability To Move Beyond Any Established Interpretive Precedent. It Is Valuable B

Author

Richard Bradford

Publisher

Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838634356

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities