‘[A] poet must know more than | a surface suggests’: Reading and Secrecy in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn

In stating that a ‘poet must know | more than a surface suggests’ (Propaganda multi-billion bun), Anna Mendelssohn ascribes to the poet a kind of secret knowledge of that which resides beyond the apparent meaning of a poem, beneath its textual surface or skin. This article considers how far a reader...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vicky Sparrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
Online Access:https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/726/