The lyric poem : formations and transformations Introduction Marion Thain Words for music perhaps: early modern songs and lyric David Lindley Neither here nor there: deixis and the sixteenth century sonnet Heather Dubrow Trewly wrote: manuscript print and the lyric in the early seventeenth century Thomas Healy Lyric and the English revolution Nigel Smith Modulation and expression in the lyric ode 1660 1750 David Fairer Eighteenth century high lyric: William Collins and Christopher Smart Marcus Walsh The retuning of the sky: Romanticism and lyric David Duff Victorian lyric pathology and phenomenology Marion Thain Modernism and the limits of lyric Peter Nicholls The lyric I in late twentieth century English poetry Neil Roberts No man is an I: recent developments in the lyric Ian Patterson Afterword Jonathan Culler. As a study of lyric poetry in English from the early modern period to the present this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus this collaboration of period specialists offers a new cross historical approach. Through eleven chapters spanning more than four centuries the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre. Presents the idea of lyric poetry as historically situated and as an evolving and changing concept. Covers a broad historical time span from the early modern period to the present. Engages with questions recently raised as to the historical character and nature of lyric poetry. Publisher description