W. S. Graham and Lyric Self-Consciousness

by Sam Buchan-Watts

This monograph considers the formal vitality of lyric in the face of anxieties about linguistic agency across the corpus of the British poet, W. S. Graham. A sophisticated modernist lyric originates, the book argues, in Graham's rendering of self-consciousness at different strata across space, sound, image and form - as distinct from a more general lyric subject or ego. By listening closely to the poems, the book seeks to identify the self-sufficiency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031731972
• ISBN13: 9783031731976
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages