Didactic Poetries
Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, "Didactic Poetries" is Beck s response to Schiller s statement: We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would remain poetic, and Hegel s claim that, strictly speaking, didactic poetry isn t poetry. For the acclaimed French poet, Philippe Beck, Schiller s task of attempting a didactic poetry remains as vital today as it was for Schiller's time.
Philippe Beck is a Poet as well as professor of philosophy at the University of Nantes. He has published over 15 volumes of poetry as well as a number of theoretical works including, most recently, Contre un Boileau: Un art poétique (Fayard, 2015). Beck was awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix de Poésie (Grand Poetry Prize) for his body of works in 2015.
Nicola Marae Allain is a faculty member in Arts & Cultural Studies at Empire State College, State University of New York.