The Defective Art of Poetry

1. Introduction
Benjamin Bennett

Part I. Elemental Poetry

2. Sappho and the Wordsworth Problem
Benjamin Bennett

3. The Poem as Hieroglyph: Goethe’s “Über allen Gipfeln”
Benjamin Bennett

Part II. Meter and Meaning

4. The Voices of Experience in Blake
Benjamin Bennett

5. Meter and Metaphysics: Hölderlin’s “Hyperions Schicksalslied”
Benjamin Bennett

Part III. The Symbolist Move

6. A Song to Worry about: Verlaine’s “Chanson d’automne”
Benjamin Bennett

7. Stefan George and the Construction of a Poetic Idiom
Benjamin Bennett

Part IV. The Political Dimension

8. Criticism as Wager: The Politics of the Mörike-Debate and Its Object
Benjamin Bennett

9. The Things on Yeats’s Desk
Benjamin Bennett

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History, Classical Studies, British and Irish Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Stylistics