The Poet and his Audience
- Author: Ian Jack
- Date Published: August 1984
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521278096
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How far, and in what respects, is a poet's work influenced by the kind of audience for which he writes? The question is crucial to our understanding of how great poems came to be written, yet it has rarely been addressed in a systematic study. In this fascinating and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden, Pope, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, and Yeats - and has traced the career of each to discover the nature and the extent of their readers' influence on their poetry. He shows that poets living in different periods and different cultural milieux addressed themselves to very differently constituted audiences (though all tended to have a close circle of highly sensitive friends on whom they could first test their work in private), and indicates how their need to adapt to the prevailing conditions shaped the nature of their poetry.
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- Date Published: August 1984
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521278096
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dryden: servant to the King
2. Pope: no man's slave
3. Byron: too sincere a poet
4. Shelley: the unacknowledged legislator
5. Tennyson: Laureate to Victoria
6. Yeats: always an Irish writer
Conclusion
Notes
Index.
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