The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, H lderlin, Verlaine, George, M rike, 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.

Author: B. Bennett
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/20/2014
Pages: 199
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137381873

About the Author
Benjamin Bennett is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of German at the University of Virginia, USA.