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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging 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.
Trade Review'… a carefully crafted collection.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsIntroduction Marion Thain; 1. 'Words for music, perhaps': early modern songs and lyric David Lindley; 2. Neither here nor there: deixis and the sixteenth-century sonnet Heather Dubrow; 3. 'Trewly wrote': manuscript, print and the lyric in the early seventeenth century Thomas Healy; 4. Lyric and the English revolution Nigel Smith; 5. Modulation and expression in the lyric ode, 1660–1750 David Fairer; 6. Eighteenth-century high lyric: William Collins and Christopher Smart Marcus Walsh; 7. The retuning of the sky: Romanticism and lyric David Duff; 8. Victorian lyric pathology and phenomenology Marion Thain; 9. Modernism and the limits of lyric Peter Nicholls; 10. The lyric 'I' in late-twentieth-century English poetry Neil Roberts; 11. No man is an I: recent developments in the lyric Ian Patterson; Afterword Jonathan Culler.
