poeticity

As High Culture for the middle classes increasingly separated itself from everyday life and language, her strenuous "poeticity" signaled that her work belonged to that special, otherworldly cultural realm.

Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron 2001

…The task of poetry seems to be tirelessly undoing the ‘poetic’; not by ‘putting an end’ to figures and tropes, but by pushing them ad absurdum…In the highly rigorous sense the term has in Heidegger, poetry would thus be the ‘deconstruction’ of the poetic, that is to say, both of what is recognized as such here there is a closely fought confrontation with the poetic tradition and of the spontaneous ‘poeticity’ of language.

enowning enowning 2007

…The task of poetry seems to be tirelessly undoing the ‘poetic’; not by ‘putting an end’ to figures and tropes, but by pushing them ad absurdum…In the highly rigorous sense the term has in Heidegger, poetry would thus be the ‘deconstruction’ of the poetic, that is to say, both of what is recognized as such here there is a closely fought confrontation with the poetic tradition and of the spontaneous ‘poeticity’ of language.

Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007

A critical essay by Marjorie Perloff on Nancy K. Anderson's The Word That Causes Death's Defeat:Since no translation can quite capture the particular poeticity of Akhmatova's verse, the best solution may be a bilingual edition we have one in Kunitz, and in Hemschemeyer's two-volume edition of the Complete Poems; I wish Anderson had given us one, framed by her very fine and useful biographical narrative, as well as her commentaries.

languagehat.com: AHKMATOVIANA. 2005