TY - GEN T1 - Lyric poetry : the pain and the pleasure of words A1 - Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 1944- LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2007 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn439837943 AB - Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to po. OP - 216 CN - PN1356 .B63 2007eb SN - 9781400827411 SN - 1400827418 SN - 128215902X SN - 9781282159020 SN - 0691126828 SN - 9780691126821 KW - Lyric poetry : History and criticism. KW - Poésie lyrique : Histoire et critique. KW - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Literary. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry. KW - Lyric poetry KW - Poésie lyrique américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -