{"product_id":"about-suffering-on-louise-gluck-paperback-softback-9781009418874","title":"About Suffering; On Louise Glück (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009418874","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAbout Suffering\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Louise Glück\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoets, we've been told, sing their suffering and there can be no poetry without suffering. Louise Glück begged to differ.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristos Hadjiyiannis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009418874, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e78 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.14 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePoetry has always courted suffering. Poets sing their suffering, we've been told, and there can be no poetry without suffering. Louise Glück wasn't too sure about that. Suffering features centrally in her poetry and she discussed its role in poetry in her critical writing, where she often retained the language of poetry as martyrdom. However, she was keen to stress that suffering's part in composition has been misplaced and misunderstood, its function idealised and fetishised. Surveying a wide range of texts about poetry's relationship to suffering, and drawing surprising links between very different voices, this book situates Glück both in the tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke's lyrical suffering and in the tradition of T. S. Eliot's impersonal approach to poetry. Glück's most powerful and characteristic discussion of suffering, it argues, takes place in her 1992 volume, The Wild Iris.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The kindest suffering\u003cbr\u003e 2. Poets like Orpheus\u003cbr\u003e 3. Revenge\u003cbr\u003e 4. Distance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mature poets\u003cbr\u003e 6. Narcissism\u003cbr\u003e 7. The mirror and the lens\u003cbr\u003e 8. Icarus\u003cbr\u003e 9. Human position\u003cbr\u003e 10. All alike\u003cbr\u003e 11. In the garden\u003cbr\u003e 12. Empty hands\u003cbr\u003e 13. More in sorrow than in anger\u003cbr\u003e 14. Back from the romantics\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'The Wild Iris'\u003cbr\u003e 16. Again and again.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470075293976,"sku":"9781009418874","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009418874i.jpg?v=1785631605","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/about-suffering-on-louise-gluck-paperback-softback-9781009418874","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}