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I hope to develop two arguments that I think relevant to the teaching of lyric poetry. The first is analytic, the second historical and hence potentially capable of making a bridge between general concerns about the lyric and specific attention to some aspects of radical or investigative poetics.
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For a superb discussion of how emotions involve the formation of attitudes see Richard Wollheim, “Lecture 2,” On the Emotions (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 63–148.
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William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” Selected Poems, ed. John O. Hayden, (London: Penguin Books, 1994), 66.
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Altieri, C. (2006). Reading for Affect in the Lyric: From Modern to Contemporary. In: Retallack, J., Spahr, J. (eds) Poetry & Pedagogy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11449-5_4
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