Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas, images, and silences.

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Harold Schweizer is Professor of English at Bucknell University, USA, where he teaches literary theory and poetry. He has co-edited the 12 volume series The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory; he is the author of Suffering and the Remedy of Art, On Waiting, and a volume of poetry, The Book of Stones and Angels.

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Book Title: Rarity and the Poetic
Book Subtitle: The Gesture of Small Flowers
Authors: Harold Schweizer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58929-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58928-6Published: 30 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58929-3Published: 12 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 98
Topics: European Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History

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