Lyric in Its Times
Subtitle: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781350093911
Subjects: Poetry, history and criticism
Description: "In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets, from Shakespeare, Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire, Frank O'Hara and J.H. Prynne."--Bloomsbury Publishing.