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Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes

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Poetry with A.E. Stallings
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Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes (Professor of Poetry lecture, Nov 2024)
A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.

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Poetry with A.E. Stallings
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Alicia Stallings
Keywords
poetry
quotation
allusion
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 04/12/2024
Duration: 00:55:55

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