Download or read book The Defective Art of Poetry written by B. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis.