Lyric

by David Lindley

98 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 1985

About the author

David Lindley is a theoretical physicist and author. He holds a B.A. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Sussex. Then he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University.

Reviews

[Caitriona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Am I honestly the first person to review this? OK, well... it was fine...

[Michael P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a comment about this book forthcoming in my obituary of the author in SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER, so I'll just quote the last paragraph of the book here. "There will, no doubt, be many arguments about particular cases, but no generic category is ever absolute, and all genres evolve through history. Our critical terminology, in its turn, evolves a few paces behind the changing of poetic habit and style. What constitutes a lyric now is different from what did int the past, and from what will in the future. As critics we can only attempt to be scrupulous in always using a generic term like 'lyric' with the fullest possible historical awareness."