The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in Poetry

by Barbara Hardy

In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to the lyric poetry of John Donne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and a group of poets central to the modernist canon: Hopkins, Yeats, Aden, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. Those interested in W.H. Auden will find the book of particular value, since Auden occupies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472505190
• ISBN13: 9781472505194
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"