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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... English Record , Spring 1973 and Summer 1974 ; Costerus : Essays in English and American Lan- guage and Literature ( Amsterdam ) , Vol . viii , 1973 ; Poetry Pi- lot , November 1973 ; Andover Review , Fall 1974 ; Contemporary Poetry : A ...
... English Record , Spring 1973 and Summer 1974 ; Costerus : Essays in English and American Lan- guage and Literature ( Amsterdam ) , Vol . viii , 1973 ; Poetry Pi- lot , November 1973 ; Andover Review , Fall 1974 ; Contemporary Poetry : A ...
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... English literature , an expert on the British poet Ralph Hodgson , knew nothing about " dipodics . " He had never so much as heard the term ... English prosodist T. S. Omond , in his book English 30 American Literature as Something Else.
... English literature , an expert on the British poet Ralph Hodgson , knew nothing about " dipodics . " He had never so much as heard the term ... English prosodist T. S. Omond , in his book English 30 American Literature as Something Else.
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Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. English prosodist T. S. Omond , in his book English Metrists , shows in considerable detail that what scholars have for centuries been saying English language poets do bears little or no relation to what ...
Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. English prosodist T. S. Omond , in his book English Metrists , shows in considerable detail that what scholars have for centuries been saying English language poets do bears little or no relation to what ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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