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The continuity of American poetry.

Author:	Roy Harvey Pearce
Publisher:	Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1961.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Roy Harvey Pearce Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	255160
Description:	xv, 442 p. 25 cm.
Contents:	1. Foreword: toward an "inside narrative" -- Argument -- Perspective -- Point of view -- Limitations and procedures -- 2. Origins: poetry and the Puritan imagination -- Puritan culture and the life of poetry -- The poetry of dogma and history -- Anne Bradstreet -- The elegy and the structure of Puritan life and art -- Taylor -- The poetry of enlightened America -- 3. The long view: an American epic -- "Ideas of glory" -- The Columbiad -- Song of Myself -- The Cantos -- The Bridge -- Paterson -- The hero in history -- 4. American renaissance (1): the poet as simple, separate person -- The world of the anti-poetic -- Poe -- Emerson -- Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- "We too must write Bibles..." -- 5. American renaissance (2): the poet and the people -- "The American idea" -- Antecedents: the case of Freneau -- The business of poetry -- Bryant -- Longfellow -- Lowell -- Holmes -- Whittier -- Timrod and Lanier -- Popular culture: genuine and spurious -- 6. The old poetry and the new -- Poetry and the "general heart" -- Robinson -- Public speech: a note on Lindsay and Sandburg -- Frost -- A new poetry -- 7. The modern age (1): counter-current -- Pound and the new poetry -- Eliot: the poetics of myth -- Ransom and Tate: the harvest of southern history -- 8. The modern age (2): talent and the individualist tradition -- Williams and the "new mode" -- Aiken -- Cummings -- Marianne Moore -- 9. The modern age (3): Wallace Stevens and the ultimate poem -- "Ploughing North America" -- "This happy creature..." -- "But in the flesh it is immortal" -- "The poem of the act of the mind..." -- The supreme fiction -- Creation and decreation -- 10. Afterword: the idea of poetry and the idea of man -- Ex post facto -- Denouement: "...a momentary end/To the complication..." -- Conclusion (in which nothing is concluded).

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