Bøger af Sally Connolly

For Sally Connolly, three years of struggle followed her husband Peter's surgery for terminal brain cancer at 61. Connolly's clear-eyed and affecting memoir recounts their wrangling over gender roles, money management, domestic decisions and lifestyle changes. Through their traumatic journey, they find humor and comfort in unexpected places.

Sally Connolly has a sharp ear for how poetry sounds, for where it originates and where it ends up, and she's in a good position to say, not just thanks to her knowledge of things Irish and Irish English and British English and American, but thanks to her knowledge about the guts of poems: past and present, early-career and deeply canonical, out-there and close to the heart, outspoken and close to the vest, get attention in Connolly's personal, thoughtful, pellucid language. The Anglophone world needs more poetry critics so careful, so thoughtful, so able to speak their minds.-Stephanie Burt

<p><p>The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the languagesuch as Miltons "e;Lycidas,"e; Shelleys "e;Adonais,"e; and Audens "e;In Memory of W. B. Yeats"e;are elegies for poets.</p><p>In <i>Grief and Meter,</i> Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy, establishing a genealogy of poetry that traces the dynamics of influence and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She identifies a distinctive and significant Anglo-American line of descent that resonates in these poems, with British poets often elegizing American ones, yet rarely the other way around. Further, she reveals how these poems function as a means of mediating, effecting, and tracing transatlantic poetic exchanges.</p><p>The author frames elegies for poets as a chain of commemoration and inheritance, each link independent, but when seen as part of the "e;golden chain,"e; signifying a larger purpose and having a correspondingly greater strength. <i>Grief and Meter</i> provides a compelling account of how and why these poems are imbued with such power and significance.</p></p>