296 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires. But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible... Read more
1 INTRODUCTION 2 ‘ALL THIS THE WORLD WELL KNOWS’ Lust in Shakespeare’s sonnets 3 ‘SOMETHING GENROUS IN MEER LUST’? Rochester as libertine 4 ‘LET BLOOD AND BODY BEAR THE FAULT’ Pope’s exorcism of desire 5 BLAKE AND FEMALE REASON 6 ‘TESTING THE RAZOR’ T.S. Eliot’s Poems 1927 ‘GET OUT AS EARLY AS YOU CAN’ Larkin’s sexual politics
Biography
Steve Clark
`This book's post feminist appropritions of what it positions as the poetry of masculine desire' are unflinching, relentless, and endlessly engaging.' - Essays in Criticism
