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Veronica Forrest-ThomsonCoda: The Risks of ‘Freedom, Truth and Skill’

Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Coda: The Risks of ‘Freedom, Truth and Skill’ [Farmer argues that Stéphane Mallarmé’s work offers an analogy to Forrest-Thomson’s faith in the hard-won results of poetic labour and the necessity of conventions. Forrest-Thomson shares both Mallarmé’s sense of the crisis facing poetry in the context of theoretical and poetic developments, but also his abiding faith in conventional forms. To hold such antiquated beliefs about the value of poetic form in the context of burgeoning post-modern practice, Farmer argues, was bold and risky, and necessarily made Forrest-Thomson a late modernist. Farmer argues that Forrest-Thomson’s work exemplifies a creative integration of traditional and experimental techniques, concluding that the poem, ‘In Memoriam’ captures her late modernist admixture of humour and despair, and her deft illustration of the capacity of conventional poetic form to distil lyrical sentiment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Veronica Forrest-ThomsonCoda: The Risks of ‘Freedom, Truth and Skill’

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
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978-3-319-62721-2
Pages
201 –208
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10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9_7
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[Farmer argues that Stéphane Mallarmé’s work offers an analogy to Forrest-Thomson’s faith in the hard-won results of poetic labour and the necessity of conventions. Forrest-Thomson shares both Mallarmé’s sense of the crisis facing poetry in the context of theoretical and poetic developments, but also his abiding faith in conventional forms. To hold such antiquated beliefs about the value of poetic form in the context of burgeoning post-modern practice, Farmer argues, was bold and risky, and necessarily made Forrest-Thomson a late modernist. Farmer argues that Forrest-Thomson’s work exemplifies a creative integration of traditional and experimental techniques, concluding that the poem, ‘In Memoriam’ captures her late modernist admixture of humour and despair, and her deft illustration of the capacity of conventional poetic form to distil lyrical sentiment.]

Published: Oct 12, 2017

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