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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... began reading them early . Along the way I began to write because I wanted to do for people what other authors had done for me . They had made life bearable , even enjoyable on those occasions when the magic of the written word opened ...
... began reading them early . Along the way I began to write because I wanted to do for people what other authors had done for me . They had made life bearable , even enjoyable on those occasions when the magic of the written word opened ...
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... began to overbalance the language , when theory began to become more important than craft , then Stevens was no longer a poet , he was a philosopher in verse , than which no creature in any kind of order or disorder is more boring ...
... began to overbalance the language , when theory began to become more important than craft , then Stevens was no longer a poet , he was a philosopher in verse , than which no creature in any kind of order or disorder is more boring ...
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... began to write a poetry of elegance . Karl Shapiro did something similar but , dissatisfied and discontented with the lowered sights of his generation , he began to experiment with various techniques and theories till at last he ...
... began to write a poetry of elegance . Karl Shapiro did something similar but , dissatisfied and discontented with the lowered sights of his generation , he began to experiment with various techniques and theories till at last he ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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