Walks in the World : : Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry / / Roger Gilbert.
In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION A Walk Is a Poem, A Poem Is a Walk
- ONE. Robert Frost The Walk as Parable
- TWO. Wallace Stevens: The Walk as Occasion
- THREE. William Carlos Williams: The Walk as Music
- FOUR. Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop: The Walk as Revelation
- FIVE. Frank O'Hara and Gary Snyder: The Walk as Sample
- SIX. A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery: The Walk as Thinking
- CONCLUSION The Walk and the World
- EPILOGUE. Some Further Walks
- INDEX