self-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry /
Deborah Forbes
viii, 244 pages ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-239) and index
"In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry."--Jacket
American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism
English poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)-- English-speaking countries