Lyric powers:
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Main Author: Von Hallberg, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index
Authority -- Praise -- Civility -- Thought -- Music -- Universality
The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary cognition generated by the formal and musical resources of poems. Lyric Powers helps students, poets, and general readers to recognize the pleasures and understand the ambitions of lyric poetry. To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, von Hallberg analyzes--beyond the politic
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 pages)
ISBN:0226865029
9780226865027

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