Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson /

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In Secular Lyrics, Michael interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissance conventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their modern context, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in a secular soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Michael, John, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : FORDHAM University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
1800-1899
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Poésie américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poésie lyrique > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
American poetry.
Lyric poetry.
Dickinson.
History.
Lyric Theory.
Lyric.
Petrarch.
Poe.
Secularism.
Whitman.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd
  • Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity
  • Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss
  • Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd
  • Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death
  • The poet as lyric reader
  • Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.

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