: Modern Poetry and the idea of A Critical and Historical Study by Gerald Bruns is a gem. This stimulating and provocative book is about prose tyle; it is addressed to those who teach, those who are taught, and those interested in writing well.
Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His previous books include The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics, and What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
The theory homies say orphic/hermetic from bruns is semiotic/symbolic from kristeva but in a different register. I probably will not finish this, but who knows?