Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

by Helen Vendler

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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler’s Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet’s mind. This book is a space-clearing gesture, an attempt to write about lyric forms in Yeats in unprecedented and comprehensive ways. The secret discipline of the poet is his vigilant attention to forms—whether generic, structural, or metrical. Yeats...

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  • ISBN10 0674026950
  • ISBN13 9780674026957
  • Publish Date 1 November 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint The Belknap Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English