TY - BOOK AU - Constantine,David TI - Poetry T2 - The literary agenda SN - 9780191653742 AV - PN1111 U1 - 809.1 22 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Poetics KW - Poetry KW - Translating KW - Social aspects KW - Poétique KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- The writing and reading of poetry -- Translation -- The good of it -- The office of poetry -- The common good N2 - The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of culturalhistory, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by ec UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=630156 ER -