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The continuity of American poetry

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xv, 442 pages
Contents
  • 1. Foreword: toward an "inside narrative"
  • Argument
  • Perspective
  • Point of view
  • Limitations and procedures
  • 2. Origins: poetry and the Puritan imagination
  • Puritan culture and the life of poetry
  • The poetry of dogma and history
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • The elegy and the structure of Puritan life and art
  • Taylor
  • The poetry of enlightened America
  • 3. The long view: an American epic
  • "Ideas of glory"
  • The Columbiad
  • Song of Myself
  • The Cantos
  • The Bridge
  • Paterson
  • The hero in history
  • 4. American renaissance (1): the poet as simple, separate person
  • The world of the anti-poetic
  • Poe
  • Emerson
  • Whitman
  • Emily Dickinson
  • "We too must write Bibles ..."
  • 5. American renaissance (2): the poet and the people
  • "The American idea"
  • Antecedents: the case of Freneau
  • The business of poetry
  • Bryant
  • Longfellow
  • Lowell
  • Holmes
  • Whittier
  • Timrod and Lanier
  • Popular culture: genuine and spurious
  • 6. The old poetry and the new
  • Poetry and the "general heart"
  • Robinson
  • Public speech: a note on Lindsay and Sandburg
  • Frost
  • A new poetry
  • 7. The modern age (1): counter-current
  • Pound and the new poetry
  • Eliot: the poetics of myth
  • Ransom and Tate: the harvest of southern history
  • 8. The modern age (2): talent and the individualist tradition
  • Williams and the "new mode"
  • Aiken
  • Cummings
  • Marianne Moore
  • 9. The modern age (3): Wallace Stevens and the ultimate poem
  • "Ploughing North America"
  • "This happy creature ..."
  • "But in the flesh it is immortal"
  • "The poem of the act of the mind ..."
  • The supreme fiction
  • Creation and decreation
  • 10. Afterword: the idea of poetry and the idea of man
  • Ex post facto
  • Denouement: " ... a momentary end/To the complication ..."
  • Conclusion (in which nothing is concluded)
Instance
Label
The continuity of American poetry
Title
The continuity of American poetry
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
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Pearce, Roy Harvey
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS303
LC item number
.P4
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Bradstreet, Anne
  • Taylor, Edward
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Dickinson, Emily
  • Freneau, Philip Morin
  • Bryant, William Cullen
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Lowell, James Russell
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf
  • Lanier, Sidney
  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington
  • Frost, Robert
  • Pound, Ezra
  • Eliot, T. S.
  • Ransom, John Crowe
  • Williams, William Carlos
  • Moore, Marianne
  • Cummings, E. E.
  • Lindsay, Vachel
  • Sandburg, Carl
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Bradstreet, Anne
  • Bryant, William Cullen
  • Cummings, E. E.
  • Dickinson, Emily
  • Eliot, T. S.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Freneau, Philip Morin
  • Frost, Robert
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Lanier, Sidney
  • Lindsay, Vachel
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Lowell, James Russell
  • Moore, Marianne
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Pound, Ezra
  • Ransom, John Crowe
  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington
  • Sandburg, Carl
  • Taylor, Edward
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf
  • Williams, William Carlos
  • American poetry
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
  • Poésie américaine
  • Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
  • Poésie américaine
  • Lyrik
  • American poetry
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • USA
Label
The continuity of American poetry
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Publication
Bibliography note
Bibliographical footnotes
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Foreword: toward an "inside narrative" -- Argument -- Perspective -- Point of view -- Limitations and procedures -- 2. Origins: poetry and the Puritan imagination -- Puritan culture and the life of poetry -- The poetry of dogma and history -- Anne Bradstreet -- The elegy and the structure of Puritan life and art -- Taylor -- The poetry of enlightened America -- 3. The long view: an American epic -- "Ideas of glory" -- The Columbiad -- Song of Myself -- The Cantos -- The Bridge -- Paterson -- The hero in history -- 4. American renaissance (1): the poet as simple, separate person -- The world of the anti-poetic -- Poe -- Emerson -- Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- "We too must write Bibles ..." -- 5. American renaissance (2): the poet and the people -- "The American idea" -- Antecedents: the case of Freneau -- The business of poetry -- Bryant -- Longfellow -- Lowell -- Holmes -- Whittier -- Timrod and Lanier -- Popular culture: genuine and spurious -- 6. The old poetry and the new -- Poetry and the "general heart" -- Robinson -- Public speech: a note on Lindsay and Sandburg -- Frost -- A new poetry -- 7. The modern age (1): counter-current -- Pound and the new poetry -- Eliot: the poetics of myth -- Ransom and Tate: the harvest of southern history -- 8. The modern age (2): talent and the individualist tradition -- Williams and the "new mode" -- Aiken -- Cummings -- Marianne Moore -- 9. The modern age (3): Wallace Stevens and the ultimate poem -- "Ploughing North America" -- "This happy creature ..." -- "But in the flesh it is immortal" -- "The poem of the act of the mind ..." -- The supreme fiction -- Creation and decreation -- 10. Afterword: the idea of poetry and the idea of man -- Ex post facto -- Denouement: " ... a momentary end/To the complication ..." -- Conclusion (in which nothing is concluded)
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 442 pages
Lccn
61007424
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)00255160
  • (OCoLC)ocm00255160
Label
The continuity of American poetry
Publication
Bibliography note
Bibliographical footnotes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Foreword: toward an "inside narrative" -- Argument -- Perspective -- Point of view -- Limitations and procedures -- 2. Origins: poetry and the Puritan imagination -- Puritan culture and the life of poetry -- The poetry of dogma and history -- Anne Bradstreet -- The elegy and the structure of Puritan life and art -- Taylor -- The poetry of enlightened America -- 3. The long view: an American epic -- "Ideas of glory" -- The Columbiad -- Song of Myself -- The Cantos -- The Bridge -- Paterson -- The hero in history -- 4. American renaissance (1): the poet as simple, separate person -- The world of the anti-poetic -- Poe -- Emerson -- Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- "We too must write Bibles ..." -- 5. American renaissance (2): the poet and the people -- "The American idea" -- Antecedents: the case of Freneau -- The business of poetry -- Bryant -- Longfellow -- Lowell -- Holmes -- Whittier -- Timrod and Lanier -- Popular culture: genuine and spurious -- 6. The old poetry and the new -- Poetry and the "general heart" -- Robinson -- Public speech: a note on Lindsay and Sandburg -- Frost -- A new poetry -- 7. The modern age (1): counter-current -- Pound and the new poetry -- Eliot: the poetics of myth -- Ransom and Tate: the harvest of southern history -- 8. The modern age (2): talent and the individualist tradition -- Williams and the "new mode" -- Aiken -- Cummings -- Marianne Moore -- 9. The modern age (3): Wallace Stevens and the ultimate poem -- "Ploughing North America" -- "This happy creature ..." -- "But in the flesh it is immortal" -- "The poem of the act of the mind ..." -- The supreme fiction -- Creation and decreation -- 10. Afterword: the idea of poetry and the idea of man -- Ex post facto -- Denouement: " ... a momentary end/To the complication ..." -- Conclusion (in which nothing is concluded)
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 442 pages
Lccn
61007424
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)00255160
  • (OCoLC)ocm00255160

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