The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)
by Helen Vendler
Category: Literary Criticism

Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.