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POETRY AND BONDAGE PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How, thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise – change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat- ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities forcommittedpoetrytoday. andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire (2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the UnitedStates,LebanonandChile. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 POETRY AND BONDAGE A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint ANDREA BRADY QueenMaryUniversityofLondon Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108845724 doi:10.1017/9781108990684 ©AndreaBrady2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Brady,Andrea,1974–author. title:Poetryandbondage:ahistoryandtheoryoflyricconstraint/AndreaBrady. description:Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2022.|Includesindex. identifiers:lccn2021024926(print)|lccn2021024927(ebook)|isbn9781108845724 (hardback)|isbn9781108990684(ebook) subjects:lcsh:Poetry–Historyandcriticism.|Prisoners’writings–History andcriticism.|Slaves’writings–Historyandcriticism.|Metaphorinliterature.|Poetics– History.|BISAC:LITERARYCRITICISM/European/English,Irish,Scottish,Welsh| LCGFT:Literarycriticism. classification:lccpn1136.b7262022(print)|lccpn1136(ebook)|ddc809.1–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021024926 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021024927 isbn978-1-108-84572-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 POETRY AND BONDAGE PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How, thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise – change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat- ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities forcommittedpoetrytoday. andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire (2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the UnitedStates,LebanonandChile. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 POETRY AND BONDAGE A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint ANDREA BRADY QueenMaryUniversityofLondon Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108845724 doi:10.1017/9781108990684 ©AndreaBrady2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Brady,Andrea,1974–author. title:Poetryandbondage:ahistoryandtheoryoflyricconstraint/AndreaBrady. description:Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2022.|Includesindex. identifiers:lccn2021024926(print)|lccn2021024927(ebook)|isbn9781108845724 (hardback)|isbn9781108990684(ebook) subjects:lcsh:Poetry–Historyandcriticism.|Prisoners’writings–History andcriticism.|Slaves’writings–Historyandcriticism.|Metaphorinliterature.|Poetics– History.|BISAC:LITERARYCRITICISM/European/English,Irish,Scottish,Welsh| LCGFT:Literarycriticism. classification:lccpn1136.b7262022(print)|lccpn1136(ebook)|ddc809.1–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021024926 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021024927 isbn978-1-108-84572-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 POETRY AND BONDAGE PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How, thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise – change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat- ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities forcommittedpoetrytoday. andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire (2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the UnitedStates,LebanonandChile. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 30 Mar 2022 at 15:52:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684
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