Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private,
emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it
draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in
a lyric poem, and how is it created? In "Lyric Poetry," Mutlu
Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual
entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public,
emotional power of language itself.
In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in
decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse
deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic,
linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate
historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes
that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional
histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse
twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,
Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways
that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of
poetic language.
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