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34 ‘There Again’: Composition, Revision, and Repair
Get accessPeter Robinson is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press. He has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations for his poetry and translations from the Italian. His most recent publications include a novel, September in the Rain (2016), his Collected Poems 1976–2016 (2017), and a critical monograph, The Sound Sense of Poetry (2018). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British & Irish Poetry (2013), which came out in paperback in 2016.
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Published:16 December 2013
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“There Again”: Composition, Revision, and Repair’ is an exploration of the ethics and psychology of poetic composition and revision. It considers its various issues from the multiple perspectives of the poet composing and the reader reading, and offers an explanation for why these need not be considered incommensurate views. By examining in detail the drafts and variant published texts that make up the compositional process for the author’s own poem ‘There Again’, it reveals many problems in the relation of difficult experience involving others to the composition of lyric poetry, concentrating especially on the roles of pronouns, their revision to alter perspectives on represented experience, and the match between these pronominal relations within the text and those with others, including readers, in the text’s publication and reception. These matters are themselves viewed in the light of poetic theories concerning the relation of composition and revision to attempts to make amends, to repair relations between people, and, in so far as it is or may be possible, to transform damage into benefit.
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