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Jackdaw jiving : selected essays on poetry & translation

Author: Christopher Middleton
Publisher: Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1998.
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This selection contains 16 essays, including the celebrated The Viking Prow and The Pursuit of the Kingfisher. Middleton is widely acknowledged as one of our most innovative poets and critics.
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Middleton, Christopher, 1926-
Jackdaw jiving.
Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1998
(OCoLC)606976981
Named Person: Christopher Middleton
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Middleton
ISBN: 1857543513 9781857543513
OCLC Number: 39921655
Description: xii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: On imagination and lyric voice --
The pursuit of the kingfisher : writing as expression --
Reflections on a Viking prow --
On the mental image --
Four glosses : on details in texts by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Hölderlin and Blake --
Materiality in the poem : conjectures --
On two poems by Brecht --
Ideas about voice in poetry --
Seventeen hiccups on the question of novelty --
On translating Günter Eich's poem "Ryoanji" --
Translating as a species of mime --
On poetry and opinion --
The bugbear of experimentalism --
Surface and depth : observations on the road --
A short speech in Mexico --Introduction to an unpublished anthology of short prose --
A short prose sampler --
Three reviews. On Opal Whiteley ; Millan's Mallarmé ; On a translation of Paul Celan's "Atemwende."
Responsibility: Christopher Middleton.

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A collection of Christopher Middleton's critical work. In this selection, 16 of his essays are featured, among them "The Viking Prow" and "The Pursuit of the Kingfisher". Authors considered are  Read more...

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