The Poetic Voice And The Voice Of Popular Music In Poems By Philip Larkin, Hugo Williams And Paul Muldoon
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15 janvier 2009
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Adrian Grafe, « The Poetic Voice And The Voice Of Popular Music In Poems By Philip Larkin, Hugo Williams And Paul Muldoon », Sillages critiques, ID : 10.4000/sillagescritiques.1150
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An initial dichotomy when it comes to considering poetry about popular music is the apparent discrepancy, at almost any level one cares to mention, between the two terms. Popular music generally aims at entertaining a mass audience and bringing in as much money for the musicians as possible. It may dabble in the unbearable lightness of kitsch, and in some sense get away with it, which is something poetry can never do, in theory at least. In the poem ‘Sleeve Notes’, discussed below, some of Pa...