The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England

by Heather Dubrow

Book Overview

2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition, calling into doubt the very possibility of self-expression in language.

Whereas much recent scholarship on lyric has centered on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421400421
• ISBN13: 9781421400426
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher