9780374528485
The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures
James Fenton
ISBN 13: 9780374528485
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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James Fenton is unique among contemporary writers in having achieved equal distinction as a poet and -- in his reportage and criticism -- as a master of trenchant prose. What is more, he has shown himself a devoted critic of both American and British modern poetry, an explainer of each tradition to the other and to itself. In these lectures, delivered at Oxford (where he succeeded Seamus Heaney as Professor of Poetry from 1994 to 1999), Fenton moves easily from Philip Larkin's laments for the British Empire, to Heaney's uneasy rebellion against it, to Robert Frost's celebrations of American conquest; from W. H. Auden on Shakespeare's homoeroticism to the vexed "feminism" of Elizabeth Bishop; from Wilfred Owen's juvenilia to Marianne Moore's youthful agitation for women's suffrage.
In these lectures -- many of which appeared in The New York Review of Books -- Fenton makes sense of the last century in poetry, and explores its antecedents and its legacies, with the lucidity, wit, and gusto that have made his criticism famous.
Review:
"W. H. Auden, Fenton's guiding star, pops up everywhere and is the subject of four chapters. Fenton's final lecture-sermon considers Auden's vexed marriage to Chester Kallman: 'to be conscious but to refuse to understand, to live not in a fine but in a lean country, to hold to what was most difficult, to face that which was most hostile...' This is Saint Wystan: high rhetoric, and highly effective. Academic litcrit tucked up its skirts and ran up the beach to escape the tide of such old-fashioned, impassioned advocacy. These lectures were not universally popular when Fenton delivered them in Eagletonian Oxford--but they are as good and as eccentric as Robert Graves's, or Auden's own. "
Michael Schmidt, Independent (London), 02/17/2001
Review:"Fenton is most effective when writing about those poets for whom he feels a natural affinity: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and especially, Auden. Auden makes cameo appearances in several of the lectures, but THE STRENGTH OF POETRY comes alive in the last three chapters, as the ephebe poet-critic finally gets to grips with his master....[C]hapters on Auden make THE STRENGTH OF POETRY an important book."
Tim Kendall, Times Literary Supplement, 04/13/2001
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