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Sincerity’s Shadow: Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry Deborah Forbes
Sincerity’s Shadow: Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Deborah Forbes
Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” poets in English have sought to represent a “sincere” self-consciousness through their work. Forbes’s generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 17, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674011885 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 19 mm · 513 g |
| Language | English |