The Fiction of the Poet: In the Post-Symbolist Mode

by Anna Balakian

Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated for the disappearance of metaphysical inclinations in early twentieth-century poetry by instituting a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069468
• ISBN13: 9780691069463
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"