The craft of poetry : dialogues on minimal interpretation /
Derek Attridge and Henry Staten.
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1. Minimal interpretation (William Blake, "The sick rose") -- 2. Figurative language (Emily Dickinson, "I started early") -- 3. Historical context (Wilfred Owen, "Futility") -- 4. Intellectual and cultural context (John Milton, "At a solemn music") -- 5. Situated subjects (Langston Hughes, "Lenox Avenue : midnight" and "Song for a black girl") -- 6. Poetic commentary (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116) -- 7. Modernist poetry and discursive logic (T. S. Eliot, "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock") -- 8. The poetry of ellipsis (Denise Riley, "A Nueva York") -- 9. Translation (Charles Baudelaire, "Au Lecteur"; Federico Garca Lorca, "Romance de la luna, luna, luna"; Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus II.13").