Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence

by Jane Hedley

Book Overview

Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith's Modern Love, Jane Hedley's study utilizes the rubrics of temporality, dialogue, and triangulation to bring a deeply rooted and vitally interesting poetic genre into focus. Its twentieth- and twenty-first-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319781561
• ISBN13: 9783319781563
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"