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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
March, 2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 applied routinely as a criterion of excellence in lyric poems, is fundamentally misguided. Once poetry in the Western tradition is established as fundamentally imperfect, Bennett reveals it to be as deeply exposed to problems in the social and political environment as any other form of literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 199 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306734894 9781306734899 9781137381880 1137381884 9781349479764 1349479764 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |