Sincerity's shadow
Subtitle: self-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry
By: Deborah Forbes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Self-consciousness in literature; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; Romanticism -- English-speaking countries; Sincerity in literature; Self in literature
Description: "In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-239) and index.