ISBN: 9780820321318

These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a varie… More...

These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems. She argues for reading as a writer reads-with equal parts passion and analysis. Her analyses of the effects of tone, image, voice, and structure connect brilliant theory with tangible examples. Intimate as well as informative, the collection begins with a discussion of the creative process and Voigt's fascination with the writing of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Readings of lyric poems by Shakespeare, Sidney, Poe, Stevens, Williams, Larkin, Bogan, Roethke, Plath, Levertov, Berryman, and others demonstrate the roles of gender, point of view, image, and music in poetry. An experienced teacher, Voigt focuses on the lyric but encourages, in any study of poetry, original thinking, attention to structure, and, above all, close reading of the work itself. An intelligent and thought-provoking marriage of art and scholarship, The Flexible Lyric exemplifies, with fierceness, dedication, and precision, how the making of poems is not just a trade but a calling. | The Flexible Lyric by Ellen Bryant Voigt Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Ellen Bryant Voigt<

ISBN: 9780820321318

Hardback, [PU: University of Georgia Press], The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety o… More...

Hardback, [PU: University of Georgia Press], The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, the author celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems., Poetry, Poetry By Individual Poets, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets<

ISBN: 9780820321318

Hardback, [PU: University of Georgia Press], The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety o… More...

Hardback, [PU: University of Georgia Press], The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, the author celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems., Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets<