Böcker av Angela Leighton

Angela Leighton's sixth book of poems turns on the curious arts of remembering and forgetting.

The new collection from celebrated poet and critic Angela Leighton, Senior Research Fellow in English at Trinity College.

Drawing on the writings of critics and philosophers and on the comments of poets and novelists who have pointed to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature as an exercise in hearing things, and renews a call for criticism that is creatively attentive to sound's work in every literary text.

This book presents a major reassessment of Shelley's poetry. Whereas other criticism has stressed the philosophical and political concerns of his poetry in isolation, Angela Leighton argues that Shelley's philosophy and politics are presented as problems of poetic utterance and are this inseparable from his aesthetics.