Visions and Revisions: Of American Poetry"... not revisions but one thoroughgoing and far-reaching revision -- of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely". -- Donald Davie |
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... England autumn , with its colors that seem ' painted ' but are really ' true , ' she finds her senses ' rapt ' and ... England , her native country , not New England . It was , perhaps , a way of keeping interested in life , in staying ...
... England autumn , with its colors that seem ' painted ' but are really ' true , ' she finds her senses ' rapt ' and ... England , her native country , not New England . It was , perhaps , a way of keeping interested in life , in staying ...
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... England . Though Phillis Wheat- ley was born on the west coast of Africa , she was reared in the same rigorous New England climate that had brought her prede- cessor to bloom . For whatever reason , however , Wheatley's spiri- tual home ...
... England . Though Phillis Wheat- ley was born on the west coast of Africa , she was reared in the same rigorous New England climate that had brought her prede- cessor to bloom . For whatever reason , however , Wheatley's spiri- tual home ...
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... England , we had merely become partners rather than apprentices , perhaps nearly equal partners , in that revolu- tion , for our poets were getting better , though not particularly dif- ferent . Even in England there were eighteenth ...
... England , we had merely become partners rather than apprentices , perhaps nearly equal partners , in that revolu- tion , for our poets were getting better , though not particularly dif- ferent . Even in England there were eighteenth ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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