Lyric In Its Times: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone

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In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets, from Shakespeare, Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire, Frank O'Hara and J.H. Prynne. Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Breathtaking Poetry Chapter 2 Petrifaction and Wave Power Chapter 3 Anti-Memorial Elegy Chapter 4 Lapidary Chapter 5 On a Raised Beach Chapter 6 Stone Thresholds Chapter 7 Dilapidation and Singing Stones Chapter 8 A Shower of Needles Chapter 9 On the Tip of the Tongue Chapter 10 Trying Times Notes Bibliography Index