What about 'For The Etruscans' Rachel Blau DuPlessis' essay on language? It
is in
The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. New York: Routledge, 1990
It is in itself a poem imho.
My daughter would say 'It's a bit old Mum' but then so am I, and if we are
suggesting Empson and Aristotle I think it could stand!
Liz
2008/7/15 Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]>:
> Good point, Tad. I suppose I'll always be a dilettante in the proper sense
> of the word; I can't ever imagine myself going professional! Humility
> comes,
> I think, from realising I have much, much to learn. And yes, excitement is
> what I'm after.
> There (of course) being no definitive edition for the further education of
> the poet, here's my reading list so far:
>
> 1) William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
> 2) Aristotle, Poetics
> 3) ST Coleridge, Collected Works in 16 volumes (I'll hunt for the relevant
> parts)
>
> There must be more out there.
>
> C'mon!
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Might this not be a field in which being a dilettante could be a good
> > thing? The alternative, I think, would not to read one textbook but to
> read
> > all of them. I'd suggest Empson as a good place to start, but then I
> think
> > you'd have to follow him up with someone whose ideas run as counter to
> his
> > as you possibly can. I think Aristotle and Coleridge are a couple other
> good
> > places to start. But I'd suggest that dilettantism, coupled with
> humility,
> > is a wonderful thing -- "I've just read a book that excited me and gave
> me
> > new insights," rather than "I've just read THE book and now I understand
> it
> > all."
> >
> >
> > Nathan Hondros wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone suggest a good textbook on poetry and poetics? I've always
> >> preferred reading the poetry itself, but I'm trying to improve my
> >> knowledge
> >> and avoid annoying myself and others by being a dilettante. My reading
> >> about
> >> poetry has always been more practical rather than theoretical - books on
> >> prosody, Rilke's letters, Pound's advice, unstructured reading from the
> >> Princeton Encyclopedia, and various relevant and unrelated essays by
> poets
> >> I
> >> admire. But I fear this reading lacks depth and structure.
> >> Suggestions will be taken very seriously.
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >>
> > --
> > Tad Richards
> > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> >
> > The moral is this: in American verse,
> > The better you are, the pay is worse.
> > --Corey Ford
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://nathanhondros.blogspot.com
>
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