The lyric poem : formations and transformations / / edited by Marion Thain, Sheffield University [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828354703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-70251-8; 1-139-89053-0; 1-316-61971-0; 1-107-68808-6; 1-107-70357-3; 0-511-86320-9; 1-107-59793-5; 1-107-66524-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809.1/4
• Soggetti: Lyric poetry - History and criticism; Lyric poetry - Themes, motives
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Marion Thain -- 'Words for music, perhaps': early modern songs and lyric / David Lindley -- Neither here nor there: deixis and the sixteenth-century sonnet / Heather Dubrow -- 'Trewly wrote': manuscript, print and the lyric in the early seventeenth century / Thomas Healy -- Lyric and the English revolution / Nigel Smith -- Modulation and expression in the lyric ode, 1660-1750 / David Fairer -- Eighteenth-century high lyric: William Collins and Christopher Smart / Marcus Walsh -- The retuning of the sky: Romanticism and lyric / David Duff -- Victorian lyric pathology and phenomenology / Marion Thain -- Modernism and the limits of lyric / Peter Nicholls -- The lyric 'I' in late-twentieth-century English poetry / Neil Roberts -- No man is an I: recent developments in the lyric / Ian Patterson -- Afterword / Jonathan Culler.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 nature of genre.