Approaching Authority: Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry of Yeats, Eliot, and Williams

by Anthony Flinn, Frank Graziano, Judith Nowinski

This study examines the principal gestures of modernist poetic speakers attempting to identify, mediate, and project cultural authority. To effect this mediation and hence to speak with a voice of authority, the poetic speakers must engage in transpersonality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083875340X
• ISBN13: 9780838753408
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 236 Pages