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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... sense . Those two whom many count among the “ great ” —Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore - were bachelor women . All four were " professional " poets in the sense that they deliberately chose to make poetry the most serious thing in ...
... sense . Those two whom many count among the “ great ” —Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore - were bachelor women . All four were " professional " poets in the sense that they deliberately chose to make poetry the most serious thing in ...
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... sense , not merely the historical or biographical senses , readers often find it impossible to get close to her poems . One tends to admire them from a distance , the distance she has deliberately interposed be- tween the reader and the ...
... sense , not merely the historical or biographical senses , readers often find it impossible to get close to her poems . One tends to admire them from a distance , the distance she has deliberately interposed be- tween the reader and the ...
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... sense of the word , not in the traditional sense , mean- ing perhaps an accentual - syllabic metrist ; rather , in the experi- mental sense , meaning that the poem is the product of the whole poet , including his mind , bent on giving ...
... sense of the word , not in the traditional sense , mean- ing perhaps an accentual - syllabic metrist ; rather , in the experi- mental sense , meaning that the poem is the product of the whole poet , including his mind , bent on giving ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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