John Shoptaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 980682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Shoptaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoptaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHOPTAW J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wahite
Other| April 01 2012 Wahite John Shoptaw John Shoptaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 325–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1544977 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Shoptaw; Wahite. Common Knowledge 1 April 2012; 18 (2): 325–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1544977 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends …
Listening to Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's poetry survives in largely unpublished manuscript versions, which some take as finished poems, with all their scriptural features (lineation, variants, calligraphy) intended. This equation of poem with manuscript not only obscures some of Dickinson's most striking visual effects but also mutes her music. By listening to her rhythms, and by reading rather than just looking at her poems, Shoptaw recovers Dickinson's radically expe…
Lyric Cryptography
Poetry readers have traditionally followed Alexander Pope's dictum,"The sound must seem an echo to the sense." In this model, poetic sounds at most second or underscore meanings already there. In this article I describe a different kind of poetry writing and reading, one in which sound actually precedes and helps produce meaning. I suggest, for example, that the surprising "shatter" in Milton's "Lycidas" ("I come to / Shatter your leaves...) is a…
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry
In readings attuned to the textual, sexual and historical specificities of Ashbery's poetic project, from Some Trees through the vast summation of Flow Chart, Shoptaw introduces readers to the poet's processes of production. first reader with full access to Ashbery's manuscripts and source materials, he is able to reveal the poet at work. He shows us, for instance, how Ashbery built Europe and The Skaters upon children's books picked up at a Pari…
Refiguring America: "A Study of William Carlos Williams' "In the American Grain
Lyric Cryptography
Poetry readers have traditionally followed Alexander Pope's dictum,"The sound must seem an echo to the sense." In this model, poetic sounds at most second or underscore meanings already there. In this article I describe a different kind of poetry writing and reading, one in which sound actually precedes and helps produce meaning. I suggest, for example, that the surprising "shatter" in Milton's "Lycidas" ("I come to / Shatter your leaves...) is a…
Listening to Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's poetry survives in largely unpublished manuscript versions, which some take as finished poems, with all their scriptural features (lineation, variants, calligraphy) intended. This equation of poem with manuscript not only obscures some of Dickinson's most striking visual effects but also mutes her music. By listening to her rhythms, and by reading rather than just looking at her poems, Shoptaw recovers Dickinson's radically expe…
Refiguring America: "A Study of William Carlos Williams' "In the American Grain
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry
In readings attuned to the textual, sexual and historical specificities of Ashbery's poetic project, from Some Trees through the vast summation of Flow Chart, Shoptaw introduces readers to the poet's processes of production. first reader with full access to Ashbery's manuscripts and source materials, he is able to reveal the poet at work. He shows us, for instance, how Ashbery built Europe and The Skaters upon children's books picked up at a Pari…
Lyric Cryptography
Poetry readers have traditionally followed Alexander Pope's dictum,"The sound must seem an echo to the sense." In this model, poetic sounds at most second or underscore meanings already there. In this article I describe a different kind of poetry writing and reading, one in which sound actually precedes and helps produce meaning. I suggest, for example, that the surprising "shatter" in Milton's "Lycidas" ("I come to / Shatter your leaves...) is a…
Listening to Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's poetry survives in largely unpublished manuscript versions, which some take as finished poems, with all their scriptural features (lineation, variants, calligraphy) intended. This equation of poem with manuscript not only obscures some of Dickinson's most striking visual effects but also mutes her music. By listening to her rhythms, and by reading rather than just looking at her poems, Shoptaw recovers Dickinson's radically expe…
Wahite
Other| April 01 2012 Wahite John Shoptaw John Shoptaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 325–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1544977 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Shoptaw; Wahite. Common Knowledge 1 April 2012; 18 (2): 325–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1544977 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends …
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