Fictions of Form in American Poetry / / Stephen Cushman.
In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when app...
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Cushman, Stephen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fictions of Form in American Poetry / Stephen Cushman. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1993 1 online resource (230 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 274 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. FICTIONS OF FORM IN AMERICAN POETRY -- TWO. WALT WHITMAN'S SIX CHILDREN -- THREE. THE BROKEN MATHEMATICS OF EMILY DICKINSON -- FOUR. EZRA POUND AND THE TERRIFYIN' VOICE OF CIVILIZATION -- FIVE. ELIZABETH BISHOP'S WINDING PATH -- SIX. A. R. AMMONS, OR THE RIGID LINES OF THE FREE AND EASY -- ENVOI -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound describe their own poetic forms, and he investigates links and analogies between poets' notions of form and their notions of "Americanness.".The book begins with a brief discussion of Whitman, who said, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Cushman takes this to mean that American poetry has succeeded in making fictions about itself which persuade its readers that its uniqueness transcends merely geographical boundaries. He explores the truth of this statement by considering the Americanness of Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and A. R. Ammons. He concludes that the uniqueness of American poetry lies not so much in its forms as in its formalism and in the various attitudes that formalism reveals.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American poetry History and criticism Theory, etc. Literary form. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691602035 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400863525 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400863525 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400863525.jpg |
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