{"title":"Chapter 3. Wondering about John Clare","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691203768-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691203768-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163507,"journal":{"name":"The Poet's Mistake","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114516104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wordsworth’s Imperfect Perfect","authors":"E. McAlpine","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses William Wordsworth's misuse of the present-perfect tense in his famous lines about a boy of Winander—a mistake that implies that the boy is still living when one knows from the poem that he is gone, that the episode was in the past. It investigates several possibilities—the poet's ambiguous treatment of death in other poems about children, the prevalence of the present perfect elsewhere in Wordsworth's verse, and his own sense of grammatical propriety—before calling a mistake a mistake. The present perfect is a common Wordsworthian grammatical construction, especially in poems about memory, and one that he uses correctly and with assurance throughout his poetry. More likely than not, the poet would have corrected his present perfect had it been brought to his attention—just as he corrected his personal pronouns in revising that original draft. This particular error suggests a difference between accident and mistake that will be central to the chapters that follow.","PeriodicalId":163507,"journal":{"name":"The Poet's Mistake","volume":"366 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115903123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poet's Mistake","authors":"E. McAlpine","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53","url":null,"abstract":"Keats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. This book gathers together for the first time numerous instances of these errors, from well-known historical gaffes to never-before-noticed grammatical incongruities, misspellings, and solecisms. But unlike the many critics and other readers who consider such errors felicitous or essential to the work itself, the book makes a compelling case for calling a mistake a mistake, arguing that denying the possibility of error does a disservice to poets and their poems. Tracing the temptation to justify poets' errors from Aristotle through Freud, the book demonstrates that the study of poetry's mistakes is also a study of critical attitudes toward mistakes, which are usually too generous—and often at the expense of the poet's intentions. Through close readings of Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Clare, Dickinson, Crane, Bishop, Heaney, Ashbery, and others, the book shows that errors are an inevitable part of poetry's making and that our responses to them reveal a great deal about our faith in poetry—and about how we read.","PeriodicalId":163507,"journal":{"name":"The Poet's Mistake","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130733916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Browning’s Bad Habit","authors":"E. McAlpine","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines a rather embarrassing error in the closing section of Robert Browning's Pippa Passes (1841), where he casually uses a slang word for female genitalia when meaning to refer to part of a nun's clothing. Like Wordsworth, Browning comes by his mistake honestly, having drawn his definition for the word from his memory of it in a seventeenth-century satirical ballad. Browning's error turns out to be a case of misreading: his source poem actually uses the word correctly—but Browning misses the joke. By exploring his mistake in context, the chapter raises the question of how interpretive mistakes relate to broader questions of meaning and its duplicity, not least in poems that are dramatic. Browning's mistake in reading thus serves as a proxy for the kinds of misinterpretations to which all readers of poetry are susceptible, especially when treating mistakes like his.","PeriodicalId":163507,"journal":{"name":"The Poet's Mistake","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133112628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wondering about John Clare","authors":"E. McAlpine","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg53.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on a word used wrongly by a poet who often took pride in his own wrongness. Unlike Browning and Wordsworth, John Clare paid little attention to details like spelling and punctuation: he depended on editors for clean copy. So what should readers make of his writing “wander” with an “o” in one poem and an “a” in another? Or of his invoking both meanings—wondering and wandering—in a single poem, but spelling them the same? Resisting the urge to gloss over this mistake, either by shrugging it off as a careless misspelling or by treating the words as yoked, the chapter disentangles the idea of mistake from carelessness on the one hand and lack of knowledge or education on the other. It calls for the possibility of blundering even amid competing editorial concerns over what constitutes a draft and when to edit for consistency, suggesting that readers have much to gain by distinguishing Clare's feigned errors from his unwilling mistakes.","PeriodicalId":163507,"journal":{"name":"The Poet's Mistake","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127839762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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