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 59
... exist when experience indicated chaos was the order . Therefore , Melville got into the habit of seeing the fact , " normality , " and behind it the horror , the bone - chilling heartlessness of the " The American Novelist as Poet 59.
... exist when experience indicated chaos was the order . Therefore , Melville got into the habit of seeing the fact , " normality , " and behind it the horror , the bone - chilling heartlessness of the " The American Novelist as Poet 59.
Page 70
... exist at the moment . Even Theodore Roethke , paradoxically , would use the villanelle form in " The Waking " to enunciate Emerson's central thesis about " organic " poetry : " I learn by going where I have to go . " Long before Thomas ...
... exist at the moment . Even Theodore Roethke , paradoxically , would use the villanelle form in " The Waking " to enunciate Emerson's central thesis about " organic " poetry : " I learn by going where I have to go . " Long before Thomas ...
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... exist . One wrote poetry — as Kreymborg noted — for oneself , but not even for one's ego ; one wrote for one's own mind . The sys- tem could be worked out only in terms of the Self ; there was no use in writing for others . Stevens ...
... exist . One wrote poetry — as Kreymborg noted — for oneself , but not even for one's ego ; one wrote for one's own mind . The sys- tem could be worked out only in terms of the Self ; there was no use in writing for others . Stevens ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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