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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... example after example of this kind of split - minded composition out of nineteenth - century American poetry — poems that unwittingly say one thing and prove the opposite . Some of these poems are among the greatest the age produced ...
... example after example of this kind of split - minded composition out of nineteenth - century American poetry — poems that unwittingly say one thing and prove the opposite . Some of these poems are among the greatest the age produced ...
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Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. example , Henderson recommends Ted Joans ' " The Nice Colored Man , " a portion of ... examples , including Whitman . The standard term for this technique is " cataloguing , " and it is in this particular ...
Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. example , Henderson recommends Ted Joans ' " The Nice Colored Man , " a portion of ... examples , including Whitman . The standard term for this technique is " cataloguing , " and it is in this particular ...
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... example he gives is a brag from Ellison's Invisible Man . No definition is offered beyond “ arcane references to what I have called ' mascon ' imagery . ” We will dis- cuss " masconception " later ; meanwhile , Henderson makes no claims ...
... example he gives is a brag from Ellison's Invisible Man . No definition is offered beyond “ arcane references to what I have called ' mascon ' imagery . ” We will dis- cuss " masconception " later ; meanwhile , Henderson makes no claims ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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