Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism)


15 Feb 2007

Watson, ''Are Poems Historical Acts?''

In Keesey, Ch 1

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EL312: Purposive and not likely to conform
Excerpt: Watson's argument in "Are Poems Historical Acts?" pushed me to think more about the cause of a work rather than what readers feel it represents merely because it was created at a certain point in history. Surely we cannot know...
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Going against the general thread
Excerpt: Let me start of this entry by saying that I started reading this for last week when clearly it is due for this week. Like Karissa, I chose to just keep on trucking instead of reading my syllabus. That said,...
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As Batly said: I meant to do that!
Excerpt: From Watson, ''Are Poems Historical Acts?'' -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism): "On the whole, we listen to those who address us in order to discover what they mean. It is also true that, in rare and memorable instances, people say...
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Wordsworth, you are the man.
Excerpt: "As Wordsworth put it, a poet is a man speaking to men. On the whole, we listen to those who address us in order to discover what they mean. It is also true that, in rare and memorable instances, people...
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We All Have Our Reasons
Excerpt: "When we ask of a poem questions on the order of 'What did the poet intend it for?'...this is surely a good question to ask, and anybody who objects at this point that the search for the author's intention is...
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Is It Elementary, Watson ?
Excerpt: Are Poems Historical Acts, Watson Literary Criticism--EL312...
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Who Writes the Rules
Excerpt: Watson, ''Are Poems Historical Acts?'' -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism) "But then nonsesne can be literature too, and csometimes is-a warning that, if there is a limit to be placed, it may be worth insisting that it should be placed...
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Prior Knowledge Ruins Everything for those New Critics
Excerpt: Watson, ''Are Poems Historical Acts?'' -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism) "When a reader recognizes a novel to be such, or chooses it because it is such, he is certainly using evidence from outside the work as well as evidence within...
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The Poem Stops
Excerpt: Quiller-Couch, in his Cambridge lectures On the Art of Writing (1916), held that the greatest literature is always seraphically free From taint of personality. George Watson "Are Poems Historical Acts?"...
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