Poetry & Money

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Gold Standard ◽  
The South ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Religious Verse ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Monetary Economies ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Vast Range

Poetry & Money: A Speculation is a study of relationships between poets, poetry, and money from Chaucer to contemporary times. It begins by showing how trust is essential to the creation of value in human exchange, and how money can, depending on conditions, both enable and disable such trustfully collaborative generations of value. Drawing upon a vast range of poetry for its exemplifications, the book includes studies of poetic hardship, religious verse and debt redeeming, the South Sea Bubble and the financial revolution, debates upon metallic and paper currency in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as modernist struggles with the gold standard, depression, inflation, and the realised groundlessness of exchange value. With its practitioner’s attention to the minutiae of poetic technique, it considers analogies between words and coins, and between poetic rhythm and the circulation of currencies in an economy. Through its close readings of poems over many centuries directly or indirectly engaged with money, it proposes ways in which, while we cannot escape monetary economies, we can resist, to some extent, being ensnared and diminished by them – through a fresh understanding of values money may serve to enable, ones which are nevertheless beyond price.

Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Bonshek (2017) Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791–1794, Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys and Billie Lythberg (eds) (2018) Resonant Histories: Pacific Artefacts and the Voyages of HMS Royalist 1890–1893, Alison Clark with Eve Haddow and Christopher Wright (2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-249
Author(s):  
Max Quanchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The Creation

Review of: Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Bonshek (2017) Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 222 pp., ISBN 978 1 90777 439 3 (hbk), £60   Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791–1794, Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys and Billie Lythberg (eds) (2018) Leiden: Sidestone Press, 381 pp., ISBN 978 9 08890 574 2 (pbk), €60   Resonant Histories: Pacific Artefacts and the Voyages of HMS Royalist 1890–1893, Alison Clark with Eve Haddow and Christopher Wright (2019) Leiden: Sidestone Press, 272 pp., ISBN 978 9 08890 629 9 (pbk), €55

Poetic forms containing rampant money

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-120
Author(s):  
Peter Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
The South ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Thomas Love Peacock ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
South Sea ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
Poetic Value

This chapter begins with the South Sea Bubble and the Financial Revolution by bringing to light an anonymous Jacobite Pindaric ode written in response to the consequences of this emblematic boom and bust. Other poems or passages on the Bubble by Anne Finch, Gay, Swift and Pope are drawn upon in an exploration of how poetic form may attempt to manage and counteract the rise of stocks and shares, notes of exchange and paper currency. The repeatedly evoked contrast between metallic coin, especially gold, and these fiduciary symbols of value is identified in such poems as Pope’s ‘Of the Use of Riches’ and then followed into the Romantic period in poems by Keats, Shelley and Byron. This distinction is found to influence Shelley’s ‘Defence of Poetry’ through the association between precious metals and poetic value in the essay by Thomas Love Peacock to which it responds.

Zoya Il'inichna Glezer – life and scientific achievements

2019 ◽  
pp. 318-323
Author(s):  
Zinaida V. Pushina ◽  
Galina V. Stepanova ◽  
Ekaterina L. Grundan
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
Kara Sea ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
The South ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Scientific Achievements ◽  
South Of European Russia

Zoya Ilyinichna Glezer is the largest Russian micropaleontologist, a specialist in siliceous microfossils — Cenozoic diatoms and silicoflagellates. Since the 1960s, she systematically studied Paleogene siliceous microfossils from various regions of the country and therefore was an indispensable participant in the development of unified stratigraphic schemes for Paleogene siliceous plankton of various regions of the USSR. She made a great contribution to the creation of the newest Paleogene schemes in the south of European Russia and Western Siberia, to the correlations of the Paleogene deposits of the Kara Sea.

Riding the South Sea Bubble

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Temin ◽  
Hans-Joachim Voth
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
South Sea
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document