£49.46

Princeton University Press The Poet's Mistake

Price data last checked 119 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 4 months ago.

£49 today · all-time low £49 (Jan 2026) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 78 days • 78 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£58.31 £48.28 £50.47 £52.66 £54.84 £57.03 £59.22 01 December 2025 20 December 2025 08 January 2026 27 January 2026 16 February 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 78 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
14 days · current 5 days · current 17 days 27 days 5 days 3 days 7 days 0 7 14 20 27 £49 £50 £51 £52 £53 £55 £58 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £52 (27 days, 34.6%)

Price range: £49 - £58

Price levels: 7 different prices over 78 days

Description

What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we read 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. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Erica McAlpine 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, she 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, McAlpine 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 remarkable close readings of Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Clare, Dickinson, Crane, Bishop, Heaney, Ashbery, and others, The Poet's Mistake 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.

Key Features

The Poet's Mistake

Product type: ABIS_BOOK

Brand: Princeton University Press

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
09 June 2020
Listed Since
22 October 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

My Poetics
96% match

My Poetics

University of Chicago Press

£62.87 14 Jan 2026
The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 5. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry
96% match

The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 5. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

£117.00 14 Jan 2026
A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
96% match

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

Belknap Press

£40.95 14 Apr 2026
W. H. Auden's Poetry: Mythos, Theory, and Practice
96% match

W. H. Auden's Poetry: Mythos, Theory, and Practice

Cambria Press

£94.99 23 Feb 2026
Poetics and Place: The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site: 34 (International Library of Cultural Studies)
96% match

Poetics and Place: The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site: 34 (International Library of Cultural Studies)

Bloomsbury

£73.15 02 Apr 2026
Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves
96% match

Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves

Routledge

£53.35 06 Mar 2026
Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves
96% match

Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves

Routledge

£174.80 09 Feb 2026
Œuvres complètes (2): Tome 2
96% match

Œuvres complètes (2): Tome 2

GALLIMARD

£54.47 25 Jan 2026
Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
96% match

Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)

University Alabama Press

£74.50 06 Mar 2026
Teaching Poetry: Reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom
96% match

Teaching Poetry: Reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom

Routledge

£136.27 09 Mar 2026
The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s: A Period of Doubt (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
96% match

The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s: A Period of Doubt (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

Springer

£67.16 05 Mar 2026
"Genial" Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century (Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments)
96% match

"Genial" Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century (Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments)

Liverpool University Press

£23.08 13 Apr 2026
Œuvres complètes (1): Tome 1
96% match

Œuvres complètes (1): Tome 1

GALLIMARD

£48.32 23 Jan 2026
Poetry And Imagined Worlds (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
96% match

Poetry And Imagined Worlds (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)

Springer

£21.15 09 Mar 2026
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
96% match

The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry

Cambridge University Press

£63.88 06 Mar 2026
Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers
96% match

Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers

Sage Publications

£42.19 18 Feb 2026
Poetic Inquiry: Unearthing the Rhizomatic Array Between Art and Research (Series in Education)
96% match

Poetic Inquiry: Unearthing the Rhizomatic Array Between Art and Research (Series in Education)

£42.00 07 Mar 2026
Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature)
95% match

Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature)

Routledge

£179.40 10 Feb 2026
Making Poetry Happen: Transforming the Poetry Classroom
95% match

Making Poetry Happen: Transforming the Poetry Classroom

Bloomsbury

£100.00 17 Feb 2026
Love among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy (Series in Victorian Studies)
95% match

Love among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy (Series in Victorian Studies)

£41.29 06 Feb 2026
The Art of Poetry: How to Read A Poem
95% match

The Art of Poetry: How to Read A Poem

Oxford University Press

£41.99 13 Feb 2026
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres
95% match

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres

University of Chicago Press

£118.41 22 Jan 2026
Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition: Volume IV: Writings on Poetry: 4 (Edward Thomas Prose Writing Selected Edition)
95% match

Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition: Volume IV: Writings on Poetry: 4 (Edward Thomas Prose Writing Selected Edition)

Oxford University Press

£164.50 25 Jan 2026
Using Poetry in the Classroom: Engaging Students in Learning
95% match

Using Poetry in the Classroom: Engaging Students in Learning

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

£71.79 13 Apr 2026