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Updating the Lyric

Updating the Lyric E D WA R D Stephen Burt, Randall Jarrell and His Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xvii + 291 pp. $ 29.50. Deborah Nelson, Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xxii + 209 pp. $ 47.50; $ 17.50 paper. hat is the office of the lyric, a form with ancient roots, in the last half of the twentieth century? Arguably, the lyric is manifest as early as Sappho's "Second Ode," which places us inside the head of one who wishes to speak but holds herself silent even as we are privy to her thoughts; intimacy is central to this form that offers an impression, John Stuart Mill famously said, of "feeling confessing itself to itself."1 What adjustments have recent practitioners made to retain the lyric's association with intimacy while registering the changes brought by new technologies, disciplines, social arrangements, and frameworks for valuing the world? Stephen Burt and Deborah Nelson offer sharply differing answers, breaking along distinct ideological lines. Burt's study takes a traditional form--a book-length, single-author presentation of Randall Jarrell (1914­1965). Randall Jarrell and His Age emphasizes 1. John Stuart Mill, "What Is Poetry," Essays on Poetry, ed. F. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

Updating the Lyric

Brunner, Edward
Contemporary Literature , Volume 45 (2) – Aug 11, 2004
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E D WA R D Stephen Burt, Randall Jarrell and His Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xvii + 291 pp. $ 29.50. Deborah Nelson, Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xxii + 209 pp. $ 47.50; $ 17.50 paper. hat is the office of the lyric, a form with ancient roots, in the last half of the twentieth century? Arguably, the lyric is manifest as early as Sappho's "Second Ode," which places us inside the head of one who wishes to speak but holds herself silent even as we are privy to her thoughts; intimacy is central to this form that offers an impression, John Stuart Mill famously said, of "feeling confessing itself to itself."1 What adjustments have recent practitioners made to retain the lyric's association with intimacy while registering the changes brought by new technologies, disciplines, social arrangements, and frameworks for valuing the world? Stephen Burt and Deborah Nelson offer sharply differing answers, breaking along distinct ideological lines. Burt's study takes a traditional form--a book-length, single-author presentation of Randall Jarrell (1914­1965). Randall Jarrell and His Age emphasizes 1. John Stuart Mill, "What Is Poetry," Essays on Poetry, ed. F.

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