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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... wanted to record . On paper now for the first time , what the scribes wrote out looked like prose . Later , when scholars got to analyzing these manuscripts , they detected conventions that seemed to be metrical . By the time the ...
... wanted to record . On paper now for the first time , what the scribes wrote out looked like prose . Later , when scholars got to analyzing these manuscripts , they detected conventions that seemed to be metrical . By the time the ...
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... wanted to believe it was the last best hope of the world ; it wanted , and still wants , to believe that the People are righteous and un- corrupt the opposite of the stereotypical Europe that Puritan and later immigrants had escaped ...
... wanted to believe it was the last best hope of the world ; it wanted , and still wants , to believe that the People are righteous and un- corrupt the opposite of the stereotypical Europe that Puritan and later immigrants had escaped ...
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... wanted his poetry to help others to endure as well . Stevens wanted his ideas to help himself endure , and the late poetry was , in large part , merely the vehicle for these ideas . But the folk do not live by ideas alone ; they live in ...
... wanted his poetry to help others to endure as well . Stevens wanted his ideas to help himself endure , and the late poetry was , in large part , merely the vehicle for these ideas . But the folk do not live by ideas alone ; they live in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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