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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Page 26
... first ; but Bryant's essay appeared about eighteen years earlier . After ad- mitting that the poetry of the past " is better than it could have been ex- pected to be , " the young author scored the American Literature as Something Else.
... first ; but Bryant's essay appeared about eighteen years earlier . After ad- mitting that the poetry of the past " is better than it could have been ex- pected to be , " the young author scored the American Literature as Something Else.
Page 38
... appeared when Whitman was nineteen . One can still , if one digs a little , find a reference here and there to ... appearance of verse , but has neither rhyme nor metre , though its rhythms , inspired by biblical passages , are said to ...
... appeared when Whitman was nineteen . One can still , if one digs a little , find a reference here and there to ... appearance of verse , but has neither rhyme nor metre , though its rhythms , inspired by biblical passages , are said to ...
Page 96
... appeared to be one of the fallen angels because , rather than propound his system logically , he " argued " by example , and the syntax he chose as his vehicle was abstract syntax . One had to develop " a mind of winter , " or of ob ...
... appeared to be one of the fallen angels because , rather than propound his system logically , he " argued " by example , and the syntax he chose as his vehicle was abstract syntax . One had to develop " a mind of winter , " or of ob ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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