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From Outlaw to Classic presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon. Students, scholars, critics, and poets will welcome this enlightening and impressively documented book. Recent writings by critics and theorists on literary canons have dealt almost exclusively with prose; Alan Golding shows that, like all canons, those of American poetry are characterized by conflict. Choosing a series...
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Publisher description: It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media--whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live--are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, and choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively and provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, and narratives that bombard us daily have ample...
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"The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors...
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Discusses poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau, Jones Very, Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, J.G. Holland, Herman Melville, Sidney Lanier, Stephen Crane, William Vaughn Moody, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Trumbull Stickney, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Frost, Amy Lowell, John Gould...
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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...
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"The longer essays in The Undiscovered Country explore a variety of poets who have shaped and shadowed contemporary verse, measuring the critical and textual traditions of Shakespeare's sonnets, Whitman's use of the American vernacular, the mystery of Marianne Moore, and Milton's invention of personality, as well as offering a thorough reconsideration of Robert Lowell and a groundbreaking analysis of Sylvia Plath's relationship to her father." "Logan's...
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