""An astonishingly wide-ranging study of the nature of poetic language. While its focus is lyric poetry selected across the whole tradition of Western literature, it has implications for all forms of literary expression. ---Marshall Brown, University of Washington In the vast diversity of Western civilization, poetry has traditions both national and international that span three millennia. To write a coherent critical history of even just lyric poetry would be perhaps beyond human powers, by in his essays Lowry Nelson finds it possible to take soundings--in great epochs of inventiveness and of changing sensibility; in the extremes of expressivity; in the reader's varying fictive role---while setting in appropriate contexts works of such poets as Horace, the early Trabadors, St. John of the Cross, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Leopardi, Baudelaire, and Vayacheslav Ivanov. Each essay has a different scope and emphasis within the apparently limitless range of possibilities. Nelson's...

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