Title A new theory for American poetry : democracy, the environment, and the future of imagination / Angus Fletcher

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 316 pages) Contents 1. Clare's Horizon 2. The Argument of Form 3. Description 4. Ashbery's Clare 5. Diurnal Knowledge 6. The Whitman Phrase 7. The Environment-Poem 8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form 9. Middle Voice 10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem 11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity 12. "The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way" 13. Coherence 14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue Summary Rather than treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the English writer John Clare - he then centres on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-310) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence Clare, John, 1793-1864 -- Influence Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Influence Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 Clare, John, 1793-1864 Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Environmental protection in literature. Democracy in literature. Ecology in literature. Nature in literature. Imagination. Imagination imagination. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. POETRY -- General. Democracy in literature Ecology in literature Environmental protection in literature Imagination Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Nature in literature Landschappen. Gedichten. Engels. Amerikaans. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674037014 0674037014

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