Lyric Poetry and the Problem of Genre
FAIN: FB-13172-77
Mary I. Oates
Rider University (Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3001)
To study the various ways in which major lyric poets have been influenced by the availability of the traditional kinds of poetry and to show how, in particular poems and in specific ways, these forms may often liberate poetic spontaneity or make analysis of and honesty about experience possible.