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Peer reviewedWalker, Jeffrey – College English, 1989
Discusses the critical paradigms that have shaped thinking about lyric poetry, dominated by the prose/lyric antithesis. Argues that these antitheses, based on Aristotle's dismissal of versification as the defining feature of poetic discourse, are unnecessary, and that the argumentative, dramatic, expressive, and prosodic motives need not be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Lyric Poetry, Rhetorical Criticism
