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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
447

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Subjects
Lyric poetry, Poetics, History and criticism, Poetry, Poetry, history and criticism

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
CHAPTER I IN THE DARKNESS
I. The Privations of Night and the Origins of Poiesis 1
II. Laughter, Weeping, and the Order of the Senses 17
III. The Lyric Eidos 38
CHAPTER 2 SOUND
I. Dynamics of Poetic Sound 59
II. Hopkins: Invocation and Listening 90
CHAPTER 3 VOICE AND POSSESSION
I. The Beloved's Voice 107
II. Three Cases of Lyric Possession 124
CHAPTER 4 FACING, TOUCH, AND VERTIGO
I. The Experience of Beholding 145
II. Touch in Aesthetic Forms 160
III. Vertigo: The Legacy of Baroque Ecstasy 178
CHAPTER 5 THE FORMS AND NUMBERS OF TIME
I. The Deictic Now 197
II. Traces of Human Motion: The Ubi Sunt Tradition 208
III. Meditation and Number: Traherne's Centuries 227
IV. The Problem of Poetic History 242
CHAPTER 6 OUT OF THE DARKNESS: NOCTURNES
I. Finch's Transformation of the Night Work 255
II. The Emergence of a Nocturne Tradition 280
CHAPTER 7 LYRIC COUNTER EPIC
I. War and the Alienation of the Senses 293
II. Two Lyric Critiques of Epic: Brooks and Walcott 309
AFTERBORN 327
NOTES 335
REFERENCES 389
INDEX OF POEMS 429
GENERAL INDEX 433.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-427) and indexes.

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.1
Library of Congress
PN1356 .S74 2001, PN1356.S74 2001, PN1356 .S74 2002

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Pagination
xi, 447 p. : ill. ;
Number of pages
447

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Open Library
OL3939077M
Internet Archive
poetryfateofsens0000stew
ISBN 10
0226774139, 0226774147
LCCN
2001005413
OCLC/WorldCat
47948632
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2103674
525115

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