The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

Bennett, B.

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-03-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349479764

DOI: 10.1057/9781137381880

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 199