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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... tion of gentility that continues to haunt the schoolroom and the American consciousness when it regards the subject of poetry . Bradstreet's earliest pieces , those in the 1650 edition , were largely technical exercises . She imitated ...
... tion of gentility that continues to haunt the schoolroom and the American consciousness when it regards the subject of poetry . Bradstreet's earliest pieces , those in the 1650 edition , were largely technical exercises . She imitated ...
Page 92
... tion to be written by one composer and orchestrated by another . The great example of this sort of cooperation is " Pictures at an Ex- hibition . " Record jacket notes written by Irving Kolodin for the album Moussorgsky - Ravel ...
... tion to be written by one composer and orchestrated by another . The great example of this sort of cooperation is " Pictures at an Ex- hibition . " Record jacket notes written by Irving Kolodin for the album Moussorgsky - Ravel ...
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... tion , to criticize his own work or to distinguish between his good and better poems , it was equally hard for him to apply critical standards to the work of his students . Alberta Turner , in the " In- troduction " to her book Poets ...
... tion , to criticize his own work or to distinguish between his good and better poems , it was equally hard for him to apply critical standards to the work of his students . Alberta Turner , in the " In- troduction " to her book Poets ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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