Radiant Lyre Essays on Lyric Poetry

by Baker, David; Townsend, Ann

• ISBN13: 9781555974602
• ISBN10: 1555974600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

"These essays explore the history of the lyric poem, its rhetorical modes and strategies. It gives the contemporary reader a sense of the origin, evolution, and present status of the modes and means of lyric poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David Baker is the author of Midwest Eclogue and Heresy and the Ideal: On
Contemporary Poetry. He is the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.

 

Ann Townsend is the author of two collections of poems, The Coronary Garden and Dime Store Erotics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Lyric Modes

The Elegy

"Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief"

"'One’s Own Sad Stead': American Elegy as Self-Elegy"

The Love Poem

"Rhetorical Contract in t he Erotic Poem"

"Meretricious Kisses"

"Eros and the Erotics of Writing"

The Ode

"The Ode"

"Between Things: On the Ode"

"Ode and Empire"

Lyric Means

On the Pastoral: The Problem of Nature

"The Pastoral: First and Last Things"

"Meditative Spaces"

"Pastoral Matters" Ann Townsend, "Arcadia Redux"

On the Sublime: The Problem of Beauty

"The Sublime: Origins and Definitions"

"The Gay Sublime"

"The Intimate Sublime"

"The Technological Sublime"

On Meditation and Mediation: The Problem of People

"'I'm Nobody': Lyric Poetry and the Problem of People"

"Life among Others"

"A Place for People in Lyric Poetry"

Ann Townsend, "A Mind for Metaphors"

On Subject, Story, and Style: The Problem of Time nbsp; David Baker

"To Think of Time" Linda Gregerson

"Mortal Time" Stanley Plumly

"Lyric Time" Ann Townsend

"All the Instruments Agree: Taking Time's Measure"

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