num_pages: 237
description: Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of exteriority. Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic I, he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life.
language: English
title: Obdurate Brilliance
titlecomplete: Obdurate Brilliance
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University Press of Florida