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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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