Author: Roy Harvey PearcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Continuity of American Poetry
Author: Roy Harvey PearcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Continuity of American Poetry. (With Corrections and Revisions.).
Author: Roy Harvey PearceThe Continuity of American Poetry (Classic Reprint)
Author: Roy Harvey PearcePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259534327
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Excerpt from The Continuity of American Poetry I shall deal in turn with expressions (and with repressions too) of that twin impulse up to our own times, when it has been followed out to its bitterest and fullest implications (by Wallace Stevens) and when it has been subjected to a mythic, orthodox religious transformation, whereby, as it is shown to be merely human, it becomes the means of demonstrating its own inadequacy (by T. S. Eliot). The narrative, as I shall indicate in the Afterword, properly closes with Stevens and Eliot. The one stakes all on the radical sufficiency of humanism; the other, on its radical insufficiency. For the one, freedom, as it is manifested in poetry, guarantees us all the community we can desire; for the other, community, likewise as it is manifested in poetry, guarantees us all the freedom we can bear. In the later work of Stevens and Eliot, the impulse, no longer taken for granted, is conceived of as fixing a set of either/or alternatives at the extreme, man as against God. It might well be that the alterna tiyes are false. Any case, the 1mpulse - wh1ch is to find a place for poetry iii - the life of modern man now, In our owir time, there is se new modes of reconciliation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Continuity of American Poetry
Author: Roy Harvey PearcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry
Author: Cecilia VicuñaPublisher:
ISBN: 0195124545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
The Search for a Method in American Studies
Author: Cecil F. TatePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907757
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Creating American Civilization
Author: David R. ShumwayPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902517
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Sing
Author: Allison Adelle Hedge CokePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816528918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from Alaska to Chile, and features familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets--both emerging and acclaimed--from regions underrepresented in anthologies.
Songs of Ourselves
Author: Joan Shelley RubinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674035127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure. Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Author: Kerry LarsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have been devoted to the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women. This volume offers essays covering these groups as well as more familiar figures such as Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow and Melville. The contents are divided between broad topics of concern such as the poetry of the Civil War or the development of the 'poetess' role and articles featuring specific authors such as Edgar Allan Poe or Sarah Piatt. In the past two decades a growing body of scholarship has been engaged in reconceptualizing and re-evaluating this largely neglected area of study in US literary history - this Companion reflects and advances this spirit of revisionism.