Table Of ContentPOETRY AND BONDAGE
PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof
thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared
verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this
metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe
contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How,
thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical
freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise –
change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets?
Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from
Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe
PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines
poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis
amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat-
ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities
forcommittedpoetrytoday.
andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand
Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire
(2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong
Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held
fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities
Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the
UnitedStates,LebanonandChile.
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POETRY AND BONDAGE
A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint
ANDREA BRADY
QueenMaryUniversityofLondon
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POETRY AND BONDAGE
PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof
thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared
verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this
metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe
contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How,
thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical
freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise –
change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets?
Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from
Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe
PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines
poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis
amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat-
ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities
forcommittedpoetrytoday.
andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand
Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire
(2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong
Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held
fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities
Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the
UnitedStates,LebanonandChile.
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POETRY AND BONDAGE
A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint
ANDREA BRADY
QueenMaryUniversityofLondon
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NewDelhi–110025,India
103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108845724
doi:10.1017/9781108990684
©AndreaBrady2021
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Firstpublished2021
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names:Brady,Andrea,1974–author.
title:Poetryandbondage:ahistoryandtheoryoflyricconstraint/AndreaBrady.
description:Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2022.|Includesindex.
identifiers:lccn2021024926(print)|lccn2021024927(ebook)|isbn9781108845724
(hardback)|isbn9781108990684(ebook)
subjects:lcsh:Poetry–Historyandcriticism.|Prisoners’writings–History
andcriticism.|Slaves’writings–Historyandcriticism.|Metaphorinliterature.|Poetics–
History.|BISAC:LITERARYCRITICISM/European/English,Irish,Scottish,Welsh|
LCGFT:Literarycriticism.
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POETRY AND BONDAGE
PoetryandBondageisagroundbreakingandcomprehensivestudyof
thehistoryofpoeticconstraint.Formillennia,poetshavecompared
verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells or slavery. Tracing this
metaphorfromOvidthroughthepresent,AndreaBradyrevealsthe
contributionstopoeticsofpeoplewhoareactuallyinbondage.How,
thebookasks,doesourunderstandingofthelyric–andthepolitical
freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise –
change, ifwe listen tothe voicesof enslaved and imprisoned poets?
Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from
Thomas Wyattto Rob Halpern,Emily Dickinson toM. NourbeSe
PhilipandPhillisWheatleytoLisaRobertson,thebookalsoexamines
poetrythatemergedfromtheplantationandtheprison.Thisbookis
amajorinterventioninlyricstudiesandliterarycriticism,interrogat-
ing the whiteness ofthose disciplinesand exploringthe possibilities
forcommittedpoetrytoday.
andrea brady isProfessorofPoetryintheSchoolofEnglishand
Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), Wildfire
(2010), Mutability (2012), Cut from the Rushes (2013), The Strong
Room (2016) and The Blue Split Compartments (2021). She has held
fellowshipsfromtheLeverhulmeTrustandtheNationalHumanities
Center, and performed throughout Europe and in Canada, the
UnitedStates,LebanonandChile.
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