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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... kind of literary person . He or she is " the sayer , the namer . " Poetry , to Emerson and Emersonian poets such as Whitman and Crane , is not any kind of performance or entertainment , it is a revelation of the " truth ...
... kind of literary person . He or she is " the sayer , the namer . " Poetry , to Emerson and Emersonian poets such as Whitman and Crane , is not any kind of performance or entertainment , it is a revelation of the " truth ...
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... kind of poetry , practiced by the post- Modernists , that the Beats rebelled in the 1950's , just as it was against this kind of British poetry that Emerson inveighed . There was but one choice left for Emerson : to define American ...
... kind of poetry , practiced by the post- Modernists , that the Beats rebelled in the 1950's , just as it was against this kind of British poetry that Emerson inveighed . There was but one choice left for Emerson : to define American ...
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... kind of plant is it ? What kind of poem ? Is it a crocus , such as Muriel Rukeyser mentions in her essay in The New Naked Poetry ? Is it pennyroyal , is it rue or sage ? The plant itself may not know its name as we do , but it " knows ...
... kind of plant is it ? What kind of poem ? Is it a crocus , such as Muriel Rukeyser mentions in her essay in The New Naked Poetry ? Is it pennyroyal , is it rue or sage ? The plant itself may not know its name as we do , but it " knows ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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