{"product_id":"lyric-powers-robert-von-hallberg-9780226865003","title":"Lyric Powers","description":"The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary cognition generated by the formal and musical resources of poems. \u003ci\u003eLyric Powers \u003c\/i\u003ehelps students, poets, and general readers to recognize the pleasures and understand the ambitions of lyric poetry. \u003cbr\u003eTo explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, von Hallberg analyzes--beyond the political and intellectual significance of poems--the musicality of both lyric poetry and popular song, including that of Tin Pan Alley and doo-wop. He shows that poets have distinctive intellectual resources--not just rhetorical resources--for examining their subjects, and that the power of poetic language to generalize, not particularize, is what justly deserves a critic's attention. \u003cbr\u003eThe first book in more than a decade from this respected critic, \u003ci\u003eLyric Powers \u003c\/i\u003ewill be celebrated as a genuine event by readers of poetry and literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Von Hallberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226865002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226865003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.92w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009","brand":"Robert Von Hallberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086428156159,"sku":"9780226865003","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_feef1f3a-a536-462b-afc3-5e422289c29e.jpg?v=1769094616","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lyric-powers-robert-von-hallberg-9780226865003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}