Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Vendler, Helen

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007-11-29. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Harvard University Press, 2007. First Harvard. Hardback, Dustjacket. Very Good. Slight wear from storage..

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2007-11-29. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Dust jacket and book are clean with light wear. Book has a very good binding and bright, unmarked pages. An excellent copy. HB HS

Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards. Book displays light shelfwear, with very small dent to bottom edge of front board. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Fine dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/428 pages."The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler's "Our Secret Discipline" begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind. This book is a space-clearing gesture, an attempt to write about lyric forms in Yeats in unprecedented and comprehensive ways. The secret discipline of the poet is his vigilant attention to forms--whether generic, structural, or metrical. Yeats explores the potential of such forms to give shape and… Read More

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 2007. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. black cloth, papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 428 pp small tear to dj at top of spine Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007-11-29. Reprint. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New. The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

Belknap Pr, 2007. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 428 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

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