Loving in verse : poetic influence as erotic / Stephen Guy-Bray.

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Guy-Bray, Stephen

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online resource

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9781442676848
1442676841
9781281992123
1281992127

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Loving in verse.DDC classification:

809.1/9353

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PN1083.H6 G89 2006eb

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Contents:

Virgil into Statius into Dante -- Chaucer and Spenser and other male couples -- Crane on Whitman -- Eliot with Bloom, Barthes with O'Hara.

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Review: "Loving in Verse examines how three poets present their relationship to their most important predecessors, beginning with Dante's use of Virgil and Statius in the Divine Comedy, moving on to Spenser's use of medieval English poets in the Faerie Queene, and finally addressing Hart Crane's use of Whitman in The Bridge. In each case, Guy-Bray shows how the younger poet presents himself and the older poet as part of a male couple. He goes on to demonstrate how male couples are, in fact, found throughout these poems, and while some are indeed familial or hostile, many are romantic or sexual.Summary: Using concepts from queer theory and close readings of images and allusions in these texts, Loving in Verse demonstrates the importance of homoeroticism to an examination of poetic influence. A discussion of the theories of poetic influence from four twentieth-century writers (T.S. Eliot, Harold Bloom, Roland Barthes, and Frank O'Hara) concludes Guy-Bray's analysis."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-128) and index.

Virgil into Statius into Dante -- Chaucer and Spenser and other male couples -- Crane on Whitman -- Eliot with Bloom, Barthes with O'Hara.

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"Loving in Verse examines how three poets present their relationship to their most important predecessors, beginning with Dante's use of Virgil and Statius in the Divine Comedy, moving on to Spenser's use of medieval English poets in the Faerie Queene, and finally addressing Hart Crane's use of Whitman in The Bridge. In each case, Guy-Bray shows how the younger poet presents himself and the older poet as part of a male couple. He goes on to demonstrate how male couples are, in fact, found throughout these poems, and while some are indeed familial or hostile, many are romantic or sexual.

Using concepts from queer theory and close readings of images and allusions in these texts, Loving in Verse demonstrates the importance of homoeroticism to an examination of poetic influence. A discussion of the theories of poetic influence from four twentieth-century writers (T.S. Eliot, Harold Bloom, Roland Barthes, and Frank O'Hara) concludes Guy-Bray's analysis."--Jacket.

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