Obdurate Brilliance

by Peter Baker

Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of exteriority. Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic I, he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813010640
• ISBN13: 9780813010649
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 237 Pages