What Use is Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4377035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meena Alexander (corresponding author), Meena Alexander Meena Alexander |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Literature Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-3570 • E-ISSN: 1945-8134 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7588/worllitetoda.87.5.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2492193481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In an address to the Yale Political Union on April 23, 2013, Meena Alexander began with a line from Shelley's 1821 essay, “A Defence of Poetry.” The resolution—“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”—led to a lively debate. What follows is a slightly revised version of the text she wrote for that occasion
Art · Art history · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |