Wordsworth Circle, March 22nd, 2006
Forty years after publication, M.H. Abrams's "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric" (1965) remains a touchstone of literary criticism. (1) Abrams's account of the introspective and meditative aspects of Romantic lyric remains a model of concision and elegance that continues to orient the study of Romantic poetry. This paper revisits "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric" to elaborate some of its implications. (2) Within Abrams's paradigm of the Greater Romantic Lyric, I argue, is an alternative poetics, a shadow-paradigm, which privileges conversational speech over vo...
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