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
... objective syntax by Davie : " Poetic syntax is objective when its function is to please us by the fidelity with which it follows a ' form of action , ' a move- ment not through any mind , but in the world at large . " The main thrust of ...
... objective syntax by Davie : " Poetic syntax is objective when its function is to please us by the fidelity with which it follows a ' form of action , ' a move- ment not through any mind , but in the world at large . " The main thrust of ...
Page 96
... objective correlatives , " to use Eliot's term . More simply put , each abstrac- tion must be made concrete by means of a metaphor ; the subject or " tenor " of the metaphor would be an abstraction that equalled an object in the ...
... objective correlatives , " to use Eliot's term . More simply put , each abstrac- tion must be made concrete by means of a metaphor ; the subject or " tenor " of the metaphor would be an abstraction that equalled an object in the ...
Page 98
... objective , scientific twen- tieth century . The name of God had lost its meaning ; therefore , God no longer existed . Other names must be invented if one were going to survive chaos . In effect , then , Stevens was an evangelist for a ...
... objective , scientific twen- tieth century . The name of God had lost its meaning ; therefore , God no longer existed . Other names must be invented if one were going to survive chaos . In effect , then , Stevens was an evangelist for a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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