The defective art of poetry : Sappho to Yeats / Benjamin Bennett.

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, H̲lderlin, Verlaine, George, M̲rike, and Yeats in detail, Benjamin Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. The book sets out to prove that using the idea of perfection, which is ap...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Bennett, Benjamin, 1939- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Lyric poetry > History and criticism. Poetics. Lyric poetry. Criticism, interpretation, etc.