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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... least fiction has an obvious function : it entertains , and when America finally de- cided that a little entertainment was all right , Cooper read a bad English novel , decided he could do at least as well as that , and did . Washington ...
... least fiction has an obvious function : it entertains , and when America finally de- cided that a little entertainment was all right , Cooper read a bad English novel , decided he could do at least as well as that , and did . Washington ...
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... least half bitter : take bitter medi- cine to find joy in life . If this was not a Whitmaniacally superhuman poetry , it was at least a less one - sided , more likely , less hysterical , more human and humane poetry . If this poetry ...
... least half bitter : take bitter medi- cine to find joy in life . If this was not a Whitmaniacally superhuman poetry , it was at least a less one - sided , more likely , less hysterical , more human and humane poetry . If this poetry ...
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... least in part , from our unfamiliarity with abstract syntax and our consequent disorientation . But did Eliot in fact write his poem in abstract syntax ? Perhaps partly , but not entirely , and he was evidently not conscious at first ...
... least in part , from our unfamiliarity with abstract syntax and our consequent disorientation . But did Eliot in fact write his poem in abstract syntax ? Perhaps partly , but not entirely , and he was evidently not conscious at first ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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