Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 182 pages; 25 cm

Subject

1. Geschichte 1850-1960
2. American poetry > History and criticism
3. American poetry
4. Lyrik
5. Metapher
6. Metrik
7. USA

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Ch. 1. The meter-making argument -- Dissonance and dialectic -- The radical tradition in American poetry -- The age of growing discomfort and inadequate remedy -- Emerson and the meter-making argument -- Radical explosions and conservative reassertions -- The United States as a poem -- Ch. 2. The constituting metaphor -- Whitman and metaphorical form -- Poe and the analogue of the short story -- In which power transacts itself -- The four years' war as pivot -- The waste land and The cantos -- The genesis of Hart Crane's The bridge -- William Carlos Williams and open-ended metaphor -- Ch. 3 What the thunder said -- Voices and the primitive terror -- The early American poets and poetic diction -- The birth and death in Whitman -- From imagism to The waste land -- Linguistics lapses in Crane and Stevens -- William Carolos Williams, M.D. -- Poe against the thin edge.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.