Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 5/31/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


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.