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 89
... follows the ' form of thought ' in some mind other than the poet's , which the poet imag- ines . " We have seen , in our discussion of Dickinson's use of view- point , that dramatic syntax can also be confused with subjective syntax if ...
... follows the ' form of thought ' in some mind other than the poet's , which the poet imag- ines . " We have seen , in our discussion of Dickinson's use of view- point , that dramatic syntax can also be confused with subjective syntax if ...
Page 90
... follows ' a form of thought ' through the poet's mind but without defining that thought . " It is the contention of ... follow “ a ' form of thought ' through the [ composer's ] mind . . . without defining that thought . " If a poet ...
... follows ' a form of thought ' through the poet's mind but without defining that thought . " It is the contention of ... follow “ a ' form of thought ' through the [ composer's ] mind . . . without defining that thought . " If a poet ...
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... follow ; maybe it is an organic development . " Stafford was restating Emerson's dictum that " the thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to form . " Stafford's plainer ...
... follow ; maybe it is an organic development . " Stafford was restating Emerson's dictum that " the thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to form . " Stafford's plainer ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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