As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely.
While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike
poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have
questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition,
calling into doubt the very possibility of self-expression in
language.
Whereas much recent scholarship on lyric has centered on the
Romantic era, Heather Dubrow turns instead to the poetry of early
modern England. "The Challenges of Orpheus" confronts widespread
assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship
to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production
and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and
the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative.
Offering fresh perspectives on major texts of the period--from
Wyatt's "My lute awake" to Milton's Nativity Ode--as well as poems
by lesser-known figures, Dubrow extends her critical conclusions to
poetry in other historical periods and to the relationship between
creative writers and critics, recommending new directions for the
study of lyric and of genre.
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