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Unfree Verse: John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins

Unfree Verse: John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins <jats:p> This essay revisits the relationship between philosophy and poetry. It argues that a crucial term, ‘verse’, is often missing from discussion of that relationship. The broader term, ‘poetry’, is so difficult to define that it offers insufficient specific resistance to large philosophical schemas. The question is explored here through an analysis of the prosodic microstructures in John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins. I conclude that Wilkinson's poem is an instance of ‘unfree verse’ (in a sense which I define in the essay) and that the poem's verse technique is also the site of its historical truth-content. </jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Unfree Verse: John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© Edinburgh University Press 2010
Subject
Literary Studies
ISSN
0264-8334
eISSN
1750-0176
DOI
10.3366/para.2010.0009
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Abstract

<jats:p> This essay revisits the relationship between philosophy and poetry. It argues that a crucial term, ‘verse’, is often missing from discussion of that relationship. The broader term, ‘poetry’, is so difficult to define that it offers insufficient specific resistance to large philosophical schemas. The question is explored here through an analysis of the prosodic microstructures in John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins. I conclude that Wilkinson's poem is an instance of ‘unfree verse’ (in a sense which I define in the essay) and that the poem's verse technique is also the site of its historical truth-content. </jats:p>

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Published: Jul 1, 2010

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