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

The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham

Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature

Helen Hennessy Vendler

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nonfiction 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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