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The Breaking of Style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)
The Breaking of Style Hopkins Heaney Graham - Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature Author:Helen Vendler Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, Helen Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of... more » the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.« less