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Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself.

In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.

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"This is a splendid book, one of the best on the lyric that I have ever read, combining a rich and original theoretical account with chapters on four major twentieth-century American poets. Blasing's take on the lyric is convincing and original."--Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

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  • Title Lyric Poetry: The Pain and Pleasure of Words
  • Author Mutlu Blasing
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, New Jersey
  • Publication date 2006-12-24
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780691126821 / 0691126828
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.34 x 0.8 in (23.98 x 16.10 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Lyric poetry - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005056497
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.104

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Mutlu Konuk Blasing is Professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of The Art of Life, American Poetry, and Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry.
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