Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading
University of Virginia Press, March 2007. Hardcover. Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary..... More