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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... terms ; but in an essay titled , peculiarly enough , " Imagism and Its Consequences , " from his book Reflec- tions on a Literary ... term “ syntax , ” and mentions “ narra- tive , " " argument , " " meditation , 88 The Waste Land Revisited.
... terms ; but in an essay titled , peculiarly enough , " Imagism and Its Consequences , " from his book Reflec- tions on a Literary ... term “ syntax , ” and mentions “ narra- tive , " " argument , " " meditation , 88 The Waste Land Revisited.
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... term : I also discovered that I worked most fruitfully in cases in which there was no clearcut distinction between ... terms he was using at that point were from the dis- cipline of fiction : " character , " " illusion , " " protagonist ...
... term : I also discovered that I worked most fruitfully in cases in which there was no clearcut distinction between ... terms he was using at that point were from the dis- cipline of fiction : " character , " " illusion , " " protagonist ...
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... term for “ cue ” or “ cue- word . " Such words are intended as automatic triggers for cultur- ally conditioned ... terms , and Henderson is intent Black Poetry 129.
... term for “ cue ” or “ cue- word . " Such words are intended as automatic triggers for cultur- ally conditioned ... terms , and Henderson is intent Black Poetry 129.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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