The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

This Companion offers an engaging and accessible introduction to key concepts in the study of poetry and poetics.

Sean Pryor (Edited by)

9781009498906, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 June 2024

368 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg

What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social and cultural lives. It examines the poem in the archive and in the digital sphere, as well as in relation to decolonization and global capitalism. The chapters in this volume range across both canonical and non-canonical poems, poems from the past and the present, and poems by a diverse set of poets. This book will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the poem.

Introduction
Part I. Ideas of the Poem: 1. Singularity Derek Attridge
2. Genre Steven Yao
3. Poem / song Boris Maslov
4. Poem / novel Emily Allen and Dino Felluga
5. Poem / concept David Nowell Smith
6. The poem in translation Peter Robinson
Part II. Forms of the Poem: 7. Voice Rosinka Chaudhuri
8. Rhythm Eric Weiskott
9. Image Kristin Grogan
10. Sound Christopher Nealon
11. Diction Alexis Chema
12. Style Sean Pryor
Part III. The Poem in the World: 13. Decolonizing the poem Tsitsi Jaiji
14. The poem as world Jahan Ramazani
15. The poem and its audiences Arka Chattopadhyay and Anuparna Mukherjee
16. The poem in the archive Ruth Abbott
17. The poem and the commodity Ruth Jennison
18. The poem in the digital age Mike Chasar.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]