The breaking of style
Subtitle: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
By: Helen Vendler.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Literary style; Heaney, Seamus -- Literary style; Graham, Jorie, 1951-  -- Literary style; English poetry -- History and criticism; English language -- Style
Description: Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to perform an act of violence on the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, Vendler clarifies the essential connection between style and substance in poetry.

Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, her masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]) and index.
"The Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature"