The Defective Art of Poetry [electronic resource] : Sappho to Yeats /
Bennett, B.author.
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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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Elemental Poetry; Chapter One Sappho and the Wordsworth Problem; Chapter Two The Poem as Hieroglyph: Goethe's "Über allen Gipfeln"; Part II Meter and Meaning; Chapter Three The Voices of Experience in Blake; Chapter Four Meter and Metaphysics: Hölderlin's "Hyperions Schicksalslied"; Part III The Symbolist Move; Chapter Five A Song to Worry about: Verlaine's "Chanson d'automne"; Chapter Six Stefan George and the Construction of a Poetic Idiom; Part IV The Political Dimension
Chapter Seven Criticism as Wager: The Politics of the Mörike-Debate and Its ObjectChapter Eight The Things on Yeats's Desk; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Poetry.
Literature-History and criticism.
Philology.
British literature.
Literature   .
Language and languages-Style.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary History.
Classical Studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Stylistics.