Abstract
Jeff Dolven’sSenses of Style describes itself as an experiment and an essaying. Made up of 396 differently sized ‘sections’ within ten larger chapters, it is a book which wrangles far-flung, vast-scale theoretical enquiries – of formalism, grammatology, stylistics, biography, intentionality – into thoughtful, close-read literary focus, by testing the edges of a double question: Why did Frank O’Hara like Thomas Wyatt – and how is Thomas Wyatt like Frank O’Hara? Storying between them a line of liking and likening, carefully strange and marvellous, Dolven hums poetry of the English Tudor court into the listening ear of whistling strollers through the New York School, and all along the way – and over the top, and underneath, and all at once – meddles curiously in hard, simple questions. How to define a minor art? What’s in a name? How much knowledge is there in beauty? Why is a voice commanding? What counts as connection?
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