Saying Yes at Lightning explores how four poets - Gerard Manley Hopkins, H. D., Osip Mandelstam, and William Carlos Williams - use imagery to confront that which is most deeply threatening to them. In showing how risky subject matter is matched by stylistic risk, the author sheds light on a previously unexplored, but quite significant, dynamic in post-romantic poetry - the pervasive use of provisional or destabilized images.
| ISBN: | 9780820439570 |
| Publication date: | 29th January 2002 |
| Author: | Kevin J. O'Brien |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 295 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature; |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Psychology |