Boyd, Brian. <br/><br/>
Why Lyrics Last :  Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (240 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Story and Verse -- Lyrics Unlinked -- 1. Poetry, Pattern, and Attention -- 2. Lyric and Sonnet -- 3. A First Shakespeare Sonnet -- From Sonnet to Sequence -- 4. Love: The Mistress -- 5. Love and Time: The Youth -- Beyond Love -- 6. Status -- 7. Death -- Shake-speares Sonnets, 1609 -- 8. Lyric and Narrative -- Envoi: Verse and Aversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Why Lyrics Last turns an evolutionary lens on lyric verse, placing the writing of verse within the human disposition to play with pattern. Boyd takes as an extended example the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare's Sonnets. There, the Bard avoids all narrative and demonstrates the power that verse can have when liberated of story. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674064843 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616.-Sonnets.<br/>Sonnets, English-History and criticism.<br/>Lyric poetry-History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR2848 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>821/.3