This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. __British Prose Poetry__ moves from a contextual overview of the genre’s early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem’s international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.

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Source title: British Prose Poetry: The Poems Without Lines

This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre’s early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem’s international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.
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Modern
English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh
Literary Criticism
Language Arts & Disciplines
Poetry
European
General
Preface 5
Acknowledgements 9
Contents 13
Notes on Contributors 16
List of Figures 21
Chapter 1 Introduction 22
Part I The Story of the British Prose Poem 38
Chapter 2 ‘Hidden’ Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry 39
Works Cited 48
Chapter 3 The British Prose Poem and ‘Poetry’ in Early Modernism 49
Works Cited 64
Chapter 4 The Flourishing of the Prose Poem in America and Britain 66
Works Cited 87
Part II The Early Narrators 90
Chapter 5 The Marvellous Clouds: Reflections on the Prose Poetry of Woolf, Baudelaire and Williams 91
1 92
2 97
3 103
Works Cited 106
Chapter 6 ‘I Grow More & More Poetic’: Virginia Woolf and Prose Poetry 108
Appendix Poetry Woolf (I Grow More & More Poetic) 124
Works Cited 132
Chapter 7 James Joyce and the Prose Poem 133
Works Cited 147
Chapter 8 T.S. Eliot’s Prose (Poetry) 149
Works Cited 162
Chapter 9 A Weakening Syntax: How It Is with Samuel Beckett’s Prose Poetry 164
Works Cited 177
Part III By Name or by Nature? 179
Chapter 10 Questioning the Prose Poem: Thoughts on Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns 180
What Is a Prose Poem? 180
Works Cited 189
Chapter 11 ‘I Went Disguised in It’: Re-evaluating Seamus Heaney’s Stations 190
Works Cited 203
Chapter 12 The Letter-Poem and Its Literary Affect: Mark Ford’s ‘The Death of Hart Crane’ 205
Works Cited 220
Chapter 13 ‘Immeasurable as One’: Vahni Capildeo’s Prose Poetics 222
Works Cited 236
Chapter 14 The Successful Prose Poem Leaves Behind Its Name 237
Works Cited 253
Part IV Other Voices, Other Forms 257
Chapter 15 ‘Man and Nature In and Out of Order’: The Surrealist Prose Poetry of David Gascoyne 258
Works Cited 273
Chapter 16 Nonsense and Wonder: An Exploration of the Prose Poems of Jeremy Over 274
Works Cited 287
Chapter 17 Prose Poetry and the Spirit of Jazz 288
Works Cited 307
Chapter 18 Roy Fisher’s Musicians 308
Works Cited 323
Part V Thinking Back, Writing Forward 325
Chapter 19 Wrestling with Angels: The Pedagogy of the Prose Poem 326
Naïveté 327
Talking About What It Is Not 328
Openness 329
Talking About What It Is 331
And What It Can Be 333
Experience 336
Works Cited 337
Chapter 20 Life, Death and the Prose Poem 338
Works Cited 343
Index 344

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction (Jane Monson)....Pages 1-16
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
‘Hidden’ Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry (David Caddy)....Pages 19-28
The British Prose Poem and ‘Poetry’ in Early Modernism (Margueritte S. Murphy)....Pages 29-45
The Flourishing of the Prose Poem in America and Britain (Robert Vas Dias)....Pages 47-70
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
The Marvellous Clouds: Reflections on the Prose Poetry of Woolf, Baudelaire and Williams (Michael O’Neill)....Pages 73-89
‘I Grow More & More Poetic’: Virginia Woolf and Prose Poetry (Jane Goldman)....Pages 91-115
James Joyce and the Prose Poem (Michel Delville)....Pages 117-132
T.S. Eliot’s Prose (Poetry) (Vidyan Ravinthiran)....Pages 133-147
A Weakening Syntax: How It Is with Samuel Beckett’s Prose Poetry (Scott Annett)....Pages 149-163
Front Matter ....Pages 165-165
Questioning the Prose Poem: Thoughts on Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns (Alan Wall)....Pages 167-176
‘I Went Disguised in It’: Re-evaluating Seamus Heaney’s Stations (Andy Brown)....Pages 177-191
The Letter-Poem and Its Literary Affect: Mark Ford’s ‘The Death of Hart Crane’ (Anthony Caleshu)....Pages 193-209
‘Immeasurable as One’: Vahni Capildeo’s Prose Poetics (Jeremy Noel-Tod)....Pages 211-225
The Successful Prose Poem Leaves Behind Its Name (Owen Bullock)....Pages 227-246
Front Matter ....Pages 247-247
‘Man and Nature In and Out of Order’: The Surrealist Prose Poetry of David Gascoyne (Luke Kennard)....Pages 249-264
Nonsense and Wonder: An Exploration of the Prose Poems of Jeremy Over (Ian Seed)....Pages 265-278
Prose Poetry and the Spirit of Jazz (N. Santilli)....Pages 279-298
Roy Fisher’s Musicians (Peter Robinson)....Pages 299-315
Front Matter ....Pages 317-317
Wrestling with Angels: The Pedagogy of the Prose Poem (Patricia Debney)....Pages 319-330
Life, Death and the Prose Poem (Michael Rosen)....Pages 331-336
Back Matter ....Pages 337-340

Annotation This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem's unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre's early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem's international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance

2018-08-15