The Resource The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Helen Vendler
The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Helen Vendler
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 100 pages
- Note
- "Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature."
- Contents
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sprung Rhythm
- Seamus Heaney: The Grammatical Moment
- Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess
- Isbn
- 9780674081215
- Label
- The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
- Title
- The breaking of style
- Title remainder
- Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Vendler
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dichtersprache
- Engels
- Englisch
- English language -- Style
- English poetry -- History and criticism
- Gedichten
- Geschichte 1876-1990
- Graham, Jorie
- Amerikaans
- Graham, Jorie, 1951- -- Literary style
- Heaney, Seamus
- Heaney, Seamus -- Literary style
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Literary style
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Literary style
- Sprache
- Stijlen
- Graham, Jorie, 1950- -- Literary style
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vendler, Helen
- Dewey number
- 821.009
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR504
- LC item number
- .V46 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English language
- English poetry
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Heaney, Seamus
- Graham, Jorie
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Heaney, Seamus
- Graham, Jorie
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Heaney, Seamus
- Graham, Jorie
- Stijlen
- Gedichten
- Engels
- Amerikaans
- Sprache
- Dichtersprache
- Geschichte 1876-1990
- Englisch
- Label
- The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Helen Vendler
- Note
- "Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page [97]) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sprung Rhythm -- Seamus Heaney: The Grammatical Moment -- Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess
- Control code
- 32550302
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 100 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674081215
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95004663
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)32550302
- Label
- The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Helen Vendler
- Note
- "Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page [97]) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sprung Rhythm -- Seamus Heaney: The Grammatical Moment -- Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess
- Control code
- 32550302
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 100 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674081215
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95004663
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)32550302
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dichtersprache
- Engels
- Englisch
- English language -- Style
- English poetry -- History and criticism
- Gedichten
- Geschichte 1876-1990
- Graham, Jorie
- Amerikaans
- Graham, Jorie, 1951- -- Literary style
- Heaney, Seamus
- Heaney, Seamus -- Literary style
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Literary style
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Literary style
- Sprache
- Stijlen
- Graham, Jorie, 1950- -- Literary style
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