Browse
Lyric Powers

Lyric Powers

by The University of Chicago Press

£33.00
MPN9780226865003
Prices updated 18 Jun 2026

Compare 1 Retailer

Prices checked 17h ago
TGJones logo

TGJones

BEST PRICE
In stock2 - 4 working days
3 deals available
£33.00
Best Price

Amazon

Check live price on Amazon.co.uk

eBay

Check availability and price on eBay.co.uk. Yorkshire.com may be paid for purchases made through this link, by eBay Partner Network.

Check on eBay

Can’t find it elsewhere?

Product Description

The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another.For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary cognition generated by the formal and musical resources of poems. "Lyric Powers" helps students, poets, and general readers to recognize the pleasures and understand the ambitions of lyric poetry.To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, von Hallberg analyzes - beyond the political and intellectual significance of poems - the musicality of both lyric poetry and popular song, including that of Tin Pan Alley and doo-wop.He shows that poets have distinctive intellectual resources - not just rhetorical resources - for examining their subjects, and that the power of poetic language to generalize, not particularize, is what justly deserves a critic's attention.The first book in more than a decade from this respected critic, "Lyric Powers" will be celebrated as a genuine event by readers of poetry and literary criticism.

More products from TGJones

Browse their full range on Yorkshire.com

Deals from Book Accessories retailers

From£33.00TGJones
Buy Now