The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in Poetry - Hardcover

Hardy, Barbara Nathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253301300 ISBN 13: 9780253301307

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1977

Synopsis

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 a central place in it. W.H. Auden has frequently been held up as the modern example par excellence of a 'public poet' whose works betray relatively little in the way of personal emotion. In the cahpters entitled 'The Reticence of W.H. Auden, Thirties to Sixties: A Face and a Map' barbara Hardy shows the inadequacy of that characterization and opens the way for a fresh appreciation of Auden's achievement as a poet. Readers interested in modern poetry genearlly and all readers acquainted with Barara Hardy's previous books will the book of importance.

About this title

Book Description:

This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of a wide-range of classic research studies in Literary Criticism.

About the Author:

Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0253301300
• ISBN 13: 9780253301307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142