Form and Self in Poetry: Sonnets of Shakespeare and Robert Lowell
FAIN: FS-10096-75
Rice University (Houston, TX 77005-1827)
Monroe Spears (Project Director: January 1975 to present)
To conduct a seminar on the relation between the form of poetry and the concept of a "Self" (conscious and unconscious) expressed in it. The primary texts will be Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lowell's History supplemented by his other sequences.