The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler

The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham

Helen Vendler

116 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in p...

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