TY - BOOK AU - McAlpine,Erica TI - The Poet's Mistake SN - 9780691203492 AV - PR508 U1 - 808.1 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - American poetry KW - History and criticism KW - English poetry KW - History and cricitism KW - Errors and blunders, Literary KW - History KW - Poetry KW - Authorship KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - Anxiety of Influence KW - Christopher Ricks KW - Elizabeth Bishop KW - Emily Dickinson KW - Force of Poetry KW - Frank Kermode KW - Geoffrey Hill KW - Harold Bloom KW - Hart Crane KW - John Ashbery KW - John Clare KW - John Fuller KW - John Keats KW - John Sutherland KW - Literature and Matters of Fact KW - Michael Anesko KW - Nerys Williams KW - Paul Muldoon KW - Robert Browning KW - Romantic poetry KW - Seamus Heaney KW - Seth Lerer KW - Uses of Error KW - Who Framed Elizabeth Bennet KW - Who is Ozymandias KW - William Wordsworth KW - contemporary poetry KW - errors KW - literary criticism KW - literary history KW - misprision KW - modernist poetry KW - poetry criticism KW - typos N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. The Poet’s Mistake --; Chapter 1. Wordsworth’s Imperfect Perfect --; Chapter 2. Robert Browning’s Bad Habit --; Chapter 3. Wondering about John Clare --; Chapter 4. Emily Dickinson’s Eloquent Lies --; Chapter 5. Hart Crane’s Wrapture --; Chapter 6. Fact-Checking Elizabeth Bishop --; Chapter 7. Misremembering Seamus Heaney --; Conclusion. Mistaking on Purpose --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access N2 - What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry—and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Erica McAlpine gathers together for the first time numerous instances of these errors, from well-known historical gaffes to never-before-noticed grammatical incongruities, misspellings, and solecisms. But unlike the many critics and other readers who consider such errors felicitous or essential to the work itself, she makes a compelling case for calling a mistake a mistake, arguing that denying the possibility of error does a disservice to poets and their poems.Tracing the temptation to justify poets' errors from Aristotle through Freud, McAlpine demonstrates that the study of poetry's mistakes is also a study of critical attitudes toward mistakes, which are usually too generous—and often at the expense of the poet's intentions. Through remarkable close readings of Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Clare, Dickinson, Crane, Bishop, Heaney, Ashbery, and others, The Poet's Mistake shows that errors are an inevitable part of poetry's making and that our responses to them reveal a great deal about our faith in poetry—and about how we read UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691203768?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691203768 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691203768/original ER -