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The fiction of the poet : from Mallarmé to the post-symbolist mode /
Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated for the disappearance of metaphysical inclinations in early twentieth-century poetry by instituting a poetic fiction. Balakian finds the immersion of the ""I"" and its altered reflection in the work of art to be a common feature of their poetry, a |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400862566 1400862566 |