The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674081218
• ISBN13: 9780674081215
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"