The Poet in America, 1650 to the PresentAlbert Gelpi |
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Albert Gelpi. INTRODUCTION American poetry , and American arts and letters in general , have been a problem from the beginning . The question in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and into the middle of the nineteenth was whether a ...
Albert Gelpi. INTRODUCTION American poetry , and American arts and letters in general , have been a problem from the beginning . The question in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and into the middle of the nineteenth was whether a ...
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... American speech and American rhythms emerging from the British tradition . Taylor's poems are not an echo , but a native statement . Once America had established its political and economic character , thoughtful and cultivated Americans ...
... American speech and American rhythms emerging from the British tradition . Taylor's poems are not an echo , but a native statement . Once America had established its political and economic character , thoughtful and cultivated Americans ...
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... American poetry into account , and increasingly take their lead from it . However hostile or susceptible to art conditions have been , American poetry is an achieved and growing fact — and a distinctive accomplishment as well . Stevens ...
... American poetry into account , and increasingly take their lead from it . However hostile or susceptible to art conditions have been , American poetry is an achieved and growing fact — and a distinctive accomplishment as well . Stevens ...
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Anne Bradstreet 16121672 | 4 |
Philip Pain d 1668? | 11 |
from Preparatory Meditations First Series | 17 |
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