Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

by Hugh Foley

What is the difference between the 'I' of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192857096
• ISBN13: 9780192857095
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.2"