The Defective Art of Poetry
Sappho to Yeats
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | B. Bennett | ISBN: | 9781137381880 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | March 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | B. Bennett |
| ISBN: | 9781137381880 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | March 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
