Poetry and Uselessness by Robert Archambeau

Poetry and Uselessness by Robert Archambeau

W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerfuland usefulidea.

Robert Archambeau received his MFA in creative writing and PhD in English from Notre Dame and is a poet and critic. His books of poetry include Home and Variations (Salt, 2004), The Kafka Sutra (MadHat, 2015), and other collections and collaborations. His critical books include Laureates and Heretics (Notre Dame, 2010), The Poet Resigns (Akron, 2013), Inventions of a Barbarous Age (MadHat, 2016) and several edited collections. He teaches at Lake Forest College and has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Illinois Arts Council, and Swedish Academy.

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ISBN 13	9780367207366
ISBN 10	0367207362
Title	Poetry and Uselessness
Author	Robert Archambeau
Series	Among The Victorians And Modernists
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2020-01-16
Number of pages	254
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