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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... speaking . If the poet has been speaking from the subjective viewpoint about the self , the ego- poetic viewpoint has been used . If the poet has been talking about someone or something else primarily ; if , although the word “ I ” may ...
... speaking . If the poet has been speaking from the subjective viewpoint about the self , the ego- poetic viewpoint has been used . If the poet has been talking about someone or something else primarily ; if , although the word “ I ” may ...
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... speaking ? If so , how does she manage to speak from beyond the grave , since the speaker is dead ? True , she might be imagining her- self dead , but if so she is using the dramatic viewpoint , not the egopoetic , because she is ...
... speaking ? If so , how does she manage to speak from beyond the grave , since the speaker is dead ? True , she might be imagining her- self dead , but if so she is using the dramatic viewpoint , not the egopoetic , because she is ...
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... speak from a single angle of personal vision ; Dickinson chose to write about everything , not just to catalog the crowds in the American streets and claim to be speaking for them , but to write of the All , from numberless angles ...
... speak from a single angle of personal vision ; Dickinson chose to write about everything , not just to catalog the crowds in the American streets and claim to be speaking for them , but to write of the All , from numberless angles ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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