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Lyric Shame

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Lyric Shame

By Gillian White

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About the book

Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by "lyric shame"-an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be.Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer's innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the 1970s the "lyric I" had b...Show more

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ISBN

9780674734395

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2014

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Lyric Shame

Format

Hardcover

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