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The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations
Marion Thain
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Description for The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations
hardcover. A wide-ranging study of lyric poetry in English, from the early modern period to the present. Editor(s): Thain, Marion. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the ... Read more
As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107010840
SKU
V9781107010840
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99-16
About Marion Thain
Marion Thain is Reader in English Literature and Culture at Sheffield University. She has published primarily on late-nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, and is author of 'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, 2007).
Reviews for The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations
'… a carefully crafted collection.' The Times Literary Supplement