Poetry

Edited by Karen Simecek (University of Warwick)
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Key works Two recent collections of essays on the philosophy of poetry Gibson 2015 and French et al 2010 provide an excellent entry point into this field of study, with essays by key philosophers on poetry such as P Lamarque, A.C. Soy Ribeiro, J. Koethe and R. Eldridge. See also Critchley 2005 for a good example of philosophical inquiry focused on a particular poet and his works.
Introductions For a good introduction to the philosophy of poetry, see Gibson 2015 and Ribeiro's entry on Poetry in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Literature Carroll & Gibson 2015. For an overview of current debates see Simecek 2019
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  1. Poetry and revolution in the Western European novel: Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    There is a novel which presents a general scheme for the development of a poet but this paper presents a problem for it. The problem is: can a believer in the scheme both account for the universality of some poets and the association it makes between poetry and revolutions?
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  2. Rules, rhyme schemes, and the autonomy of the poet.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    From an observation by the poet Paul Valéry, I argue that rhyme schemes, while constraining, also enable the poet to achieve autonomy from various surrounding influences, such as the domestic and the political. The demand to keep to the rhyme scheme takes priority, reducing the likelihood of these dominating.
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  3. Radikale Kreatürlichkeit. Zur Sphäre der erinnernden Körperlichkeit in Paul Celans Fadensonnen-Gedichten.Maximilian Runge - manuscript
    In his 1968 poetry collection „Fadensonnen“, Paul Celan offers a hermetic blend of existentialism and mysticism, which is unusual in two respects. Firstly, the European philosophy of existence, especially with its proponents Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Martin Heidegger, had gone to great lengths to criticize and delegitimize the Abrahametic religions, for the concept of god seemed to be an obstacle to humanity in pursuit of its own humanization. Secondly, in the aftermath of the holocaust, the idea of man wanting (...)
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  4. Political Neurosis in Semiosis.Morteza Shahram - manuscript
    Earlier semioses (implicating at least sometimes political forces to establish a sign) enabled by anonymous intentions permeate later semioses and shape the structure of language. The same way earlier neuroses shape the epistemically embattled structure of unconscious.---Contingent but primordial relations of power semiotically implicated, on both sides of inter-translation of distant languages, so effectively permeate language and literature that there is ever an ineradicable textual residue in the translation reminiscent of the political contexts.---Every belated text a corollary to the primordial (...)
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  5. Poetry's Secret Truth.Mark F. Sharlow - manuscript
    Poetry, it is said, can reveal truth. Yet despite the best efforts of philosophers and poets to describe this truth, very few understand what kinds of truth poetry can convey.* One fact seems clear: only a few of the truths of poetry can be captured equally well in prose. Poetry also conveys truths of a different kind — truths that seem to exist on a level entirely different level from that of ordinary, factual truth. Some poems try to teach moral (...)
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  6. Art, “Theory,” and Poetry.Paul Barolsky - unknown - Arion 7 (1).
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  7. The Art of Poetry: Notes for Aspiring Poets and Playwrights. Horace - unknown - Arion 7 (2).
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  8. Banishing The Poets.: Yun Lee Too, The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism. [REVIEW]Charles Martindale - unknown - Arion 8 (3).
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  9. Blake. London.Peter Ackroyd - forthcoming - Minerva.
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  10. (1 other version)Análisis figurativo de tres poemas de Jorge Eduardo Eielson.Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila - forthcoming - Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica.
  11. The poetics of the silent language.Radhouan Ben Amara - forthcoming - ACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano.
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  12. Spenser and the Ideal of the Gentleman.Leonard Rn Ashley - forthcoming - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance.
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  13. Language, poetry and the rights of man.Da Beale - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  14. A Cave Allegory.Philip Bold - forthcoming - Philosophy and Literature.
    A retelling of Plato's famous cave allegory. Inspired by Dōgen, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.
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  15. From Choral Poetry to Tragic Stasimon: The Enactment of Women's Song.Claude Calame - forthcoming - Arion 3 (1).
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  16. Un Gesuita Inglese Poeta: Gerard Manley Hopkins.Benedetto Croce - forthcoming - Critica.
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  17. Influencias multiliterarias de Trilce (1922) del poeta peruano César Vallejo.Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila - forthcoming - Todas as Artes.
  18. «La incompatibilidad de la poesía con el logos» (reseña). [REVIEW]Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila - forthcoming - Ariadna Histórica. Lenguajes, Conceptos, Metáforas.
  19. Trascendencia del contenido emotivo de Escalas melografiadas (1922) de César Vallejo.Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila - forthcoming - Cuadernos Fronterizos.
  20. Literature of the new deal.Arthur Feiler - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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  21. Philosophy of Lyric Voice: The Cognitive Value of Page and Performance Poetry. [REVIEW]Sarah Feldman - forthcoming - British Journal of Aesthetics.
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  22. The Art of Poetry: Notes for Aspiring Poets and Playwrights: To the Pisos.David Ferry - forthcoming - Arion.
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  23. Self and circumstance: A note on Wopko Jensma's poetry.Michael Gardiner - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  24. Opposite: Poems, Philosophy & Coffee. [REVIEW]John Gibson - forthcoming - British Journal of Aesthetics.
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  25. Native American “Absences”: Cherokee Culture and the Poetry of Philosophy.Joshua M. Hall - forthcoming - Global Conversations.
    In this essay, after a brief decolonial analysis of the concept of “poetry” in Indigenous communities, I will investigate the poetic-philosophical implications of Cherokee culture, more specifically the poetic essence of the Cherokee language, the poetic aspects of Cherokee myth (pre-history) and post-myth (history), and the poetic-philosophical powers of Cherokee ritual. My first section analyzes the poetic essence, structure, special features, and historical context of the Cherokee language, drawing on Ruth Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith’s language textbook, Beginning Cherokee. My (...)
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  26. Dramatization and Poeticization: Deleuze and the Poeticity of Metaphysics.Movahedi Hamed - forthcoming - Philosophy Today.
    In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze evokes dramatization when he suggests that intensities must dramatize the Ideas to condition their actualization. This allusion to an artistic category, in the midst of his metaphysical inquiry, has remained obscure, and despite its cruciality, it is not clear why he appeals to dramatization to explain any actualization and not solely the artistic actualization. This essay attempts to elucidate this ambiguity, by foregrounding a zone of torsional continuity, wherein intensity encounters the Idea and expresses it (...)
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  27. The city and the country: Books VII and VIII of wordsworth's'the prelude'.Francois Hugo & F. J. Hugo - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  28. Yeats, Frye, and the meeting of saint and poet.Nicholas Meihuizen - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  29. How Literature Changes the Way We Think.Anders Pettersson - forthcoming - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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  30. Archibald A. hill.Non-Grammatical Prerequisites - forthcoming - Foundations of Language.
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  31. Empowering Young Voices through Performance Poetry.Karen Simecek, Andrew Cooper & Christopher Earley - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophy of Education.
    In this paper we examine the potential of writing and performing poetry to empower young people from marginalized backgrounds to participate in the political life of their communities. Our method combines philosophical analysis with the design and implementation of a poetry workshop in Coventry. Drawing on Cavell’s notion of ‘acknowledgement’, we begin with a philosophical account of the pedagogy that informed the workshop’s design. We then explore how this account informed implementation of the workshop. Finally, we present the results. To (...)
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  32. (2 other versions)Editorial: On the Third Realm. Perspectives on Paestum.Ralph A. Smith & Christiana M. Smith - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetic Education.
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  33. Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife.Daniel Tiffany - forthcoming - Substance.
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  34. Bodenreform und PoesieLand Reform and Poetry.Marcus Twellmann - forthcoming - Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte.
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  35. La'barbarica bellezza'di Gerard Manley Hopkins.Rosanna Zelocchi - forthcoming - Convivium: revista de filosofía.
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  36. The Muses Speak as One.James Griffith - 2025 - In Stories and Memories, Memories and Histories: A Cross-disciplinary Volume on Time, Narrativity, and Identity. Leiden: Brill. pp. 1-26.
    This chapter first gives a rough outline of the reasoning behind the division of this collection of essays, one part focused on particular issues and the second on more universal ones. It then works out that reasoning in more detail through an examination of the historical development of the relationship between storytelling, as represented by myth and poetry, and history in the Western tradition from Hesiod through Hegel. The thesis is that Aristotle’s philosophical preference for poetry over history is overturned (...)
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  37. Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy.Philip Mills - 2025 - Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of OLP. Through the analysis of French and American poetry that reinterprets notions such as illocution, perlocution, and language-games, Mills develops a poetic philosophy of language, revealing its viral and transformative nature. Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy bridges philosophy and poetry, showing how poetry contaminates and reshapes our ways (...)
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  38. Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature.Owen Ware - 2025 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Why was mythology of vital importance for the romantics? What role did mythology play in their philosophical and literary work? And what common sources of influence inspired these writers across Britain and Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century? In this wide-ranging study, Owen Ware argues that the romantics turned to mythology for its potential to transform how we see ourselves, others, and the world. Engaging with authors such as William Blake, Friedrich Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich von Hardenberg (...)
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  39. The Worlds of Wang Guowei: A Philosophical Case Study of Coloniality.Michael Dufresne - 2024 - Dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    The Qing dynasty scholar Wang Guowei 王國維 (1877–1927) has received little recognition in the English-speaking world, and even less in the philosophical community. Raised to be a Ruist (or Confucian) scholar official, he gave up this path to pursue the study of the “new learning” (xīnxué 新學) from the West and became enamored with German aesthetic philosophy, especially the works of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. However, by the start of the modern Republic period in China, Wang had denounced all (...)
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  40. Poetic Difficulty & Epistemic Authority.John Gibson - 2024 - Poema. Jahrbuch Für Lyrikforschung 2:123-136.
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  41. KAMİL ERDEM ÖYKÜLERİNDE METİNLER ARASILIK.Yalçın Gülay - 2024 - Dissertation, Erci̇yes Üni̇versi̇tesi̇
    Kâmil Erdem Öykülerinde Metinler Arasılık, yazarın Yok Yolcu, Bir Kırık Segâh, Şu Yağmur Bir Yağsa kitaplarında bulunan öykülerde metinler arası ilişkilere odaklanan, metinler arasılığın üretilen yeni metne etkilerini sorgulayan, ilgilerin açıklanmasında edebiyat, tarih, siyaset bilimi, sosyoloji, müzik ve resim gibi alanlardan faydalanan bir araştırmadır. Çalışma; “Metinler Arasılık Kuramı”, “Kâmil Erdem Öykülerinde Metinler Arasılık” başlıklarını taşıyan iki ana bölümden oluşmuştur. Çalışmanın “Giriş” bölümünde yazara ait biyografi bilgisi verilmiştir. “Metinler Arasılık Kuramı” başlığı taşıyan birinci bölümde metinler arasılık kuramı ve tarihçesi özetlenmiş, ikinci (...)
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  42. (1 other version)Virgil’s Feminist Counterforce: Juno’s Furor as Matter of Imperium's Unjust Forms.Joshua M. Hall - 2024 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 58 (2):12-29.
    In this article, I offer a new philosophical interpretation of Virgil’s Aeneid, dually centered on the queens of Olympus and Carthage. More specifically, I show how the philosopher-poet Virgil deploys Dido’s Junonian furor as the Aristotelian matter of the unjust Roman imperium, the feminist counterforce to the patriarchal force disguised as peaceful order. The first section explores Virgil’s political and biographical background for the raw materials for a feminist, anti-imperial political philosophy. The second section, following Marilynn Desmond, situates the continuing (...)
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  43. THE VOICE OF HEART - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS.Alexis Karpouzos - 2024 - Athens: COSMIC SPIRIT.
    Alexis karpouzos is a visioner in the development of post-history sense of cosmic unity and the integral consciousness. For him, spirituality is not just about personal enlightenment but is deeply connected to moral action. He view ethical living as a natural outgrowth of spiritual awareness. In his worldview, the divine is not something distant or abstract but is present in every human being, and this awareness should lead to moral behavior that reflects love, justice, and equality. In many of his (...)
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  44. Camus, Kierkegaard & Dostoevsky | Existentialism -Alexis karpouzos.Alexis Karpouzos - 2024 - Philosophy East and West 9 (21):6.
    Albert Camus’ views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as Absurdism, he defines the Absurd “as the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find any meaning in a purposeless, meaningless, and irrational universe, with the ‘unreasonable silence’ of the universe in response.” However, this world in itself is not absurd, what is absurd is our relationship with the universe, which is irrational. Camus is considered to be (...)
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  45. Eckart Förster, Grenzen der Erkenntnis? Untersuchungen zu Kant und dem Deutschen Idealismus, hrsg. v. Johannes Haag u. Bodo Beyer (=Spekulation und Erfahrung II,62), Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 2022, 490 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-7728-2932-1. [REVIEW]Jens Pier - 2024 - Philosophisches Jahrbuch 131 (2):175–177.
    This is a review of a volume comprising 18 of Eckart Förster’s most important essays. Written between 1987 and 2022, all of them touch upon the theme of limits of cognition. Among the issues tackled are Kant’s Opus Postumum, Goethe’s project of a scientia intuitiva or science of the intuitive understanding, the significance of §§76–77 of the third Critique for post-Kantianism, the case for Hölderlin’s authorship of the Oldest System-Programme of German Idealism, and Hegel’s early ideas on logic and phenomenology. (...)
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  46. Inheriting the Poetry of Survival: Caleb Ward reviews Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. [REVIEW]Caleb Ward - 2024 - The Philosopher 112 (2):99-104.
    A long-form review essay on Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (2024) and the task of reading Audre Lorde as a philosopher.
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  47. Lo s-terminato esistere. La co-appartenenza di apollineo e dionisiaco da una prospettiva infra-heideggeriana.Gianmaria Avellino - 2023 - I Castelli di Yale Online 11 (2):132-152.
    This paper explores the deep philosophical affinities between Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on their shared understanding of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy and its implications for the essence of human existence. The analysis begins by examining Nietzsche's concept of the unity of the Apollonian and Dionysian as a fundamental aspect of human identity, despite Nietzsche's own unawareness of its metaphysical significance. Heidegger, in turn, recognizes this insight as an epochal breakthrough in Nietzsche's thought, surpassing the boundaries of traditional (...)
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  48. Depressing Goings-on in the House of Actuality: Philosophers and Poets Confront Larkin's 'Aubade'.Kathy Behrendt - 2023 - Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas 21 (1):133-151.
    Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade” tackles the subject of mortality with technical facility and unsparing candour. It has a reputation for profoundly affecting its readers. Yet poets Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz think “Aubade” is bad for us and for poetry: it lures us into the underworld and traps us there, and betrays poetry’s purpose by transcribing rather than transforming the depressing facts of reality. Philosophers, however, quite like it. “Aubade” crops up repeatedly in contemporary philosophy of death. I examine the (...)
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  49. Sacerdotes de Dioniso ¿para qué poetas en tiempos de penuria?Sâmara Costa - 2023 - Tercio Creciente 25:147-160.
    Este trabajo parte del análisis de Heidegger en “¿Para qué poetas?”, donde el autor interpreta la poesía de Hölderlin a partir de su elegía «Pan y vino», aquí expondremos algunas de sus explicaciones. También intentaremos entender la respuesta que da Hölderlin en la que asocia los poetas a los «sacerdotes del dios del vino». Para ello nos ayudaremos de las nociones que de Dioniso nos ofrecen tanto Nietzsche como Hölderlin, presentaremos semejanzas y diferencias de algunas de sus interpretaciones. Aparte de (...)
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  50. Entrevista a Cristhian Briceño Ángeles sobre los escritores y las editoriales.Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila - 2023 - Argos. Revista Electrónica Semestral de Estudios y Creación Literaria 10 (25):167-172.
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