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 58
... beginning with the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and extend- ing through the Old Testament . The oldest Anglo - Saxon manuscripts were transcripts of oral lit- erature . Scribes simply wrote down , in long lines without artificial breaks ...
... beginning with the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and extend- ing through the Old Testament . The oldest Anglo - Saxon manuscripts were transcripts of oral lit- erature . Scribes simply wrote down , in long lines without artificial breaks ...
Page 97
... no meaning in existence beyond whatever meaning the artificer - the " creator " with a small c - imposed upon the chaos of the physical universe . In the beginning was The syn- Word , but The Word was not with God A Modernist Coin 97.
... no meaning in existence beyond whatever meaning the artificer - the " creator " with a small c - imposed upon the chaos of the physical universe . In the beginning was The syn- Word , but The Word was not with God A Modernist Coin 97.
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... beginning of a massive reaction against formalist poetry which in the next decade turned into a rout . Many for- malist poets themselves , including James Wright , Donald Hall , and even Simpson , turned against the bardic tradition ...
... beginning of a massive reaction against formalist poetry which in the next decade turned into a rout . Many for- malist poets themselves , including James Wright , Donald Hall , and even Simpson , turned against the bardic tradition ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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