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 |
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Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence
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Clare, John, 1793-1864 -- Influence
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Influence
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 |
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Clare, John, 1793-1864 |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 |
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American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Democracy in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Imagination.
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Imagination
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imagination.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- General.
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Democracy in literature
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Ecology in literature
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Environmental protection in literature
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Imagination
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Nature in literature
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Landschappen.
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Gedichten.
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Engels.
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Amerikaans.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780674037014 |
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0674037014 |
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