Stephen Dobyns: Aspects of the Lyric (July 2016)

What is the practice of the lyric? What is needed in form and content to make it successful? Stephen Dobyns’s lecture investigates the use and implementation of lyric elements in poetry by Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Whitman, Yeats, and Zbigniew Herbert and discusses how those elements give credibility to the emotion the writer is attempting to express.