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Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form /

"The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler's Our Secret Disc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lyric form in Yeats's poetry : Prophecy, love, and revolution
  • Antechamber and afterlife : Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle
  • The puzzle of sequence : Two political poems
  • "Magical" techniques in the early poems
  • Tales, feelings, farewells : Three stages of the Yeatsian Ballad
  • Troubling the tradition : Yeats at sonnets
  • The nationalist measure : Trimeter-quatrain poems
  • Marches and the examination of conscience : The tetrameter line
  • The medium of instruction : Doctrine in blank verse
  • The renaissance aura : Ottava Rima poems
  • The spacious lyric : Long stanzas, irregular lines
  • Primitivism and the grotesque : "Supernatural songs"
  • Rare forms.