First published posthumously in 1978 by Manchester University Press, this volume turned sharply against critics of the previous generation, notably William Empson, and against emergent strains of historicism. The book is an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) defence of "all the rhythmic, phonetic, verbal, and logical devices which make poetry different from prose." According to the author, such devices are responsible for poetry's most significant effect-not pleasure or ornament or some kind of special expressivity, but the production of "alternative imaginary orders."

Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry

Forrest-Thomson, Veronica

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Poetic artifice: A theory of twentieth-century poetry

Literature & Fiction

Manchester University Press

includes tr from French of Tel Quel group

Collected Poems and Translations

Poetry

Allardyce Barnett Pub

Selected Poems: Language-Games, On The Periphery And Other Writings

Invisible Books

Poetry. Edited by Anthony Barnett. This volume brings back into print the complete poems of Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975), whose work remains a touchstone for those interested in radical poetry in the 1970s. The book contains all of her published collections, plus poems that remained in manuscript, and contains work that has come to light since the publication of the Collected Poems and Translations (Allardyce, Barnett, 1990) as well as a number of corrections to the first edition.

Collected Poems

Shearsman Books

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