Sincerity's shadow

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"In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry."--Jacket.

subjects: American poetry,  English poetry,  History and criticism,  Postmodernism (Literature),  Romanticism,  Self in literature,  Self-consciousness in literature,  Sincerity in literature,  Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature,  English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century,  American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century,  Romanticism, great britain

Places: English-speaking countries

Times: 19th century,  20th century