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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... woman a woman — the two should revel in their kinds , not ordinarily adopt the qualities of the other except in particular literary circumstances . The Oxford English Dictionary says that effeminate means things like " Womanish , un ...
... woman a woman — the two should revel in their kinds , not ordinarily adopt the qualities of the other except in particular literary circumstances . The Oxford English Dictionary says that effeminate means things like " Womanish , un ...
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... woman ? If a woman adopted the manly virtues , she became masculine , but if Whitman adopted the womanly virtues , he became the Great American Poet , a feat not all American male poets were capable of , for it took a certain largeness ...
... woman ? If a woman adopted the manly virtues , she became masculine , but if Whitman adopted the womanly virtues , he became the Great American Poet , a feat not all American male poets were capable of , for it took a certain largeness ...
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Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. and if this woman had written the self - same poems we have now in Leaves of Grass ; if the egopoetic narrator of these poems had de- clared , " Who touches this book touches a woman " ; if she had said ...
Of American Poetry Lewis Turco. and if this woman had written the self - same poems we have now in Leaves of Grass ; if the egopoetic narrator of these poems had de- clared , " Who touches this book touches a woman " ; if she had said ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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