Description |
xxiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. Midi -- 2. Sappho : translation as elegy -- 3. Alcaics in exile : W. H. Auden's "In memory of Sigmund Freud" -- 4. The end of The Aeneid -- 5. Negative idylls : Mark Strand and contemporary pastoral -- 6. In classic guise : John Hollander's shadow selves -- 7. Contradictory classicists : Frank Bidart and Louise Gluck -- 8. The "last madness" of Gerard de Nerval -- 9. Rimbaud : insulting beauty -- 10. Mallarme and Max Jacob : a tale of two dice cups -- 11. Orpheus the painter : Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay -- 12. Words and blood in Dante -- 13. Dark knowledge : Melville's poems of the Civil War -- 14. Hardy's undoings -- 15. Meeting H.D. -- 16. Adventures of the "I" : the poetry of pronouns in Geoffrey Hill |
Summary |
"Fables of the Self traces ideas of imagined selfhood through lyric poetry of Classical Greece and Rome, the Modernist poetry of France, and modern and contemporary English and American lyric. Rosanna Warren's work emerges from the tradition of British and American poet-critics such as William Empson, Donald Davie, and Randall Jarrell. She opposes both the literalizing, autobiographical approach to self in so-called confessional poetry and the other extreme of avant-garde erasures of self. Framing her critical studies between a memoir of childhood and a concluding journal entry, Warren has composed an occult autobiography, trying to show the imagination as a transfiguring and potentially moral force."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-313) and index |
Subject |
Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.
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Self in literature.
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LC no. |
2008021348 |
ISBN |
9780393066135 hardcover |
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