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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... understand their architecture . The other thing that happened in 1968 was that Hyatt H. Waggoner published his book American Poets from the Puritans to the Present . This treatise happened to appear at a time when I was confused about a ...
... understand their architecture . The other thing that happened in 1968 was that Hyatt H. Waggoner published his book American Poets from the Puritans to the Present . This treatise happened to appear at a time when I was confused about a ...
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Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. people find it difficult to " understand " what it is he is getting at in his poetry . Eliot and Stevens were similarly attacked , not to men- tion Pound , but if one understands that these poets often ...
Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. people find it difficult to " understand " what it is he is getting at in his poetry . Eliot and Stevens were similarly attacked , not to men- tion Pound , but if one understands that these poets often ...
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... understand this poem with its double - entendre on the word “ jelly . ” Henderson says , " Since the reference is to a state of mind or feeling instead of to an object or structure , the technique could be called the use of the ...
... understand this poem with its double - entendre on the word “ jelly . ” Henderson says , " Since the reference is to a state of mind or feeling instead of to an object or structure , the technique could be called the use of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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