The Fiction of the Poet: In the Post-Symbolist Mode

by Anna Balakian

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Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated for the disappearance of metaphysical inclinations in early twentieth-century poetry by instituting a...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691069468

ISBN13:9780691069463

Release Date:April 1992

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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