J.H. Prynne and the Late-Modern Epic

1 December 2009

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1Rod Mengham and John Kinsella, An Introduction to the Poetry of J.H. Prynne, 1999, essay, Personal Website and parallel with Jacket Magazine Issue 7, July 1 2008.

2Anthony Matthew Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne, Angelaki Humanities (Manchester ; New York :New York :: Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2005). 1-44.

3 Edward Larrissy, “Poets of a Various Art: J.H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier,” Contemporary British Poetry : Essays in Theory and Criticism Published: Albany : , C1996. Physical Desc.: Viii, 418 P. : Isbn: 0791427676 (Acid-Free Paper) Isbn: 0791427684 (Pbk. : Acid-Free Paper) Link to Record: Http://Nla.Gov.Au/Anbd.Bib-An12194447, eds. James Acheson and Romana Huk (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996). 64.

4 Larrissy, “Poets of a Various Art: J.H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier.” 70.

5 Peter Middleton, Distant Reading : Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry, Modern and Contemporary Poetics (Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press, 2005).Milne essay, cited without reference by Middleton. 171.

6 Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, Gretel Adorno and Robert Hullot-Kentor, Aesthetic Theory (London :: Athlone Press, 1997). Quotations from page 202 and 190, respectively.

7 Olson, Creeley, Friedlander and Allen, Collected Prose. 138.

8 J.H. Prynne, “A Letter to Peter Riley 15/9/1985,” In lit 1992 (1992).

9 James Clifford, “Notes on (Field)Notes,” Fieldnotes : The Makings of Anthropology, ed. Roger Sanjek (Ithaca :: Cornell University Press, 1990). 66. A large selection of Clifford's notes are utilized by Prynne in The Solitary Reaper, to define the manner in which collated ethnographic notes may work to describe the exact conditions of these textualised cultural facts.

10 N. H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge, Nearly Too Much : The Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press, 1995).

11 Olson, Creeley, Friedlander and Allen, Collected Prose. 247.

12 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 5.

13 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 5.

14 Olson, Creeley, Friedlander and Allen, Collected Prose. 138.

15 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 7.

16 Olson, Creeley, Friedlander and Allen, Collected Prose. 157.

17 Charles Olson and George F. Butterick, The Maximus Poems (Berkeley :: University of California Press, 1983). 575. Maximus Pagination: [ III.184].

18 Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialektik (Frankfurt am Main :: Suhrkamp, 1966). 29. Theodor W. Adorno and E. B. Ashton, Negative Dialectics (London :: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973). 17-18. Trans: “The need to lend a voice to suffering is a condition of all truth.”

19 Keston Sutherland, “Xl Prynne,” Complicities : British Poetry 1945-2007, eds. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague :: Literraria Pragensia, 2007). 52.

20 J.H. Prynne, “Review of Charles Olson's the Maximus Poems IV,V, VI. ,” The Park 4/5.Summer 1969. (1969).

21 Andrew Duncan, The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (Cambridge :: Salt, 2003). 121.

22 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 125. Quotations from Kitchen Poems, as cited by Mellors, are from 'The Holy City', 43.

23 Olson, Creeley, Friedlander and Allen, Collected Prose. ‘The Material and Weights of Herman Melville' 113-119. 117.

24 Sutherland, “Xl Prynne.” 70-71.

25 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 9-10.

26 Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne. 12.

27 Edward Dorn, Gunslinger (Durham, [N.C.] :: Duke University Press, 1989). 145.

28 N. H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge, Nearly Too Much : The Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press, 1995). 120. 120.

29 Anthony Matthew Mellors, Late Modernist Poetics : From Pound to Prynne, Angelaki Humanities (Manchester ; New York :New York :: Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2005). 7. 7.

30 Kevin Nolan, 'Capital Calves': Undertaking an Overview, 24, 2003, Essay, Jacket, Available: http://jacketmagazine.com/24/nolan.html, Dec.1 2008.

31 Nolan, Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview.

32 E. D. Phillips, “The Legend of Aristeas: Fact and Fancy in Early Greek Notions of East Russia, Siberia, and Inner Asia,” Artibus Asiae 18.2 (1955). 161. 161.

33 Nolan, Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview.

34 Nolan, Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview.

35 Nigel Wheale, “Crosswording. Paths through Red D Gypsum,” A Manner of Utterance, ed. Ian Brinton (Exeter: Shearsman, 2009). 169.

36 Peter Middleton, Distant Reading : Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry, Modern and Contemporary Poetics (Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press, 2005). 183. 183. ed. Ian Brinton (Exeter: Shearsman, 2009). 176.

37 Jay Basu, “The Red Shift Trekking: J.H. Prynne's Red D Gypsum,” The Cambridge Quarterly 30.1 (2001). NOTE: As also should be noted the trek has implicit Marxist connotations to forced labour, a brief overview of which is provided by Basu.

38 Simon Perril, “Hanging on Your Every Word ” A Manner of Utterance, ed. Ian Brinton (Exeter: Shearsman, 2009). 95. 95. {NOTE: Also cognitive are the connotations linking this indigenous Eurasian journey to the African nomadological journeys of Marzipan.}

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Matthew Hall is working on a dissertation on J.H. Prynne and Violence at the University of Western Australia and a series of poetic essays that pertain to the radical pastoral. His poetry, occasional prose and criticism have been featured in journals around the world. Hall is Editor of Cordite Scholarly.

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