The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats
ISBN-10
1137381884
ISBN-13
9781137381880
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
2014-03-20
Publisher
Springer
Author
B. Bennett

Description

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis.

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