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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... literary establishment . That he was controversial merely empha- sizes the point . If Whitman was no technical innovator , and if he was no literary pariah , he was perhaps the first American poet who recognized the value of public ...
... literary establishment . That he was controversial merely empha- sizes the point . If Whitman was no technical innovator , and if he was no literary pariah , he was perhaps the first American poet who recognized the value of public ...
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... literary " ages " are given their names by scholars , and because most academics are interested less in literature itself than in such things as sources , schools , movements , biography , influences and so forth , we generally have ...
... literary " ages " are given their names by scholars , and because most academics are interested less in literature itself than in such things as sources , schools , movements , biography , influences and so forth , we generally have ...
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... Literary Revolution . See Hough , Graham RENFRO , G. Herbert , 17-18 REXROTH , Kenneth , 68–69 , 107 , 136 , 143 Rich , Adrienne , 9 , 47 RICHARDS , I. A .: The Principles of Literary Criticism , 88 Robinson , Edwin Arlington , 12 , 68 ...
... Literary Revolution . See Hough , Graham RENFRO , G. Herbert , 17-18 REXROTH , Kenneth , 68–69 , 107 , 136 , 143 Rich , Adrienne , 9 , 47 RICHARDS , I. A .: The Principles of Literary Criticism , 88 Robinson , Edwin Arlington , 12 , 68 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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