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 44
... Nature . Its flesh is soft ; it shows less and less of the in- definable hard something that is Nature . Where is any thing but the shaved Nature of synods and schools ? Where is a savage and luxuriant man ? Where is the overseer ...
... Nature . Its flesh is soft ; it shows less and less of the in- definable hard something that is Nature . Where is any thing but the shaved Nature of synods and schools ? Where is a savage and luxuriant man ? Where is the overseer ...
Page 75
... nature and saw there the ambiguity and the tensions between opposites in the paradox of being human . But it was not yet time for the bards to make this existential dichotomy conscious - Bryant spliced an uplift tail onto his vision ...
... nature and saw there the ambiguity and the tensions between opposites in the paradox of being human . But it was not yet time for the bards to make this existential dichotomy conscious - Bryant spliced an uplift tail onto his vision ...
Page 105
... nature . . . has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announce- ment and affirming . . . by the beauty of things , which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed . Nature offers all her crea- tures to him as a picture ...
... nature . . . has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announce- ment and affirming . . . by the beauty of things , which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed . Nature offers all her crea- tures to him as a picture ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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