Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

by Helen Vendler

The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler's Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind. This book is a space-clearing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026950
• ISBN13: 9780674026957
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.4"