Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Double Pattern 2. The Silent Poem 3. Critical Antipathy 4. The Poet as Visual Artist 5. The Bifurcation of Modernist Poetics 6. Poems as Pictures 7. The Sliding Scale 8. After Modernism 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.

About the Author

Richard Bradford is Research Professor of English at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He has previously held posts in Oxford, University of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin. He has published widely on prosody, 18th century criticism, Milton, Jakobsen, Critical Theory, the history of English poetry and contemporary fiction.