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The breaking of style :

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The breaking of style :

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Hopkins, Heaney, Graham /

Helen Vendler.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Harvard University Press,

1995.

x, 100 pages ;

22 cm.

The Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature

"The Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature."

Includes bibliographical references (page 97) and index.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sprung Rhythm -- Seamus Heaney: The Grammatical Moment -- Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess.

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Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to perform an act of violence on the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, Vendler clarifies the essential connection between style and substance in poetry. Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, her masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Gerard Manley Hopkins' invention of sprung rhythm marks a dramatic break with his early style. Rhythm, Vendler shows us, is at the heart of Hopkins' aesthetic, and sprung rhythm is his symbol for danger, difference, and the shock of the beautiful. In Seamus Heaney's work, she identifies clear shifts in grammatical "atmosphere" from one poem to the next - from "nounness" to the "betweenness" of an adverbial style - shifts whose moral and political implications come under scrutiny here. And finally Vendler looks at Jorie Graham's departure from short lines to numbered lines to squared long lines of sentences, marking a move from deliberation to cinematic "freeze-framing" to coverage, each with its own meaning in this poet's career.

Breaking of style.

Graham, Jorie,1950-Literary style.

Heaney, Seamus,1939-2013-- Literary style.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889-- Literary style.

Graham, Jorie,1951-Style.

Heaney, Seamus-- Style.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889-- Style.

Englisch, ...

Graham, Jorie, 1950-

Graham, Jorie,1950-

Graham, Jorie.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Heaney, Seamus,1939-2013

Heaney, Seamus.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

English language-- Style.

English poetry-- History and criticism.

Amerikaans.

Dichtersprache

Engels.

English language-- Style.

English poetry.

Gedichten.

Geschichte 1876-1990.

Literary style.

Sprache

Stijlen.

Englisch.

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Vendler, Helen,1933-

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