Regenerate Lyric - Theology and Innovation in American Poetry

Klappentext Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. Zusammenfassung Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the view that Emerson not only overthrew New England religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favour of a secular! Romantic approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. An original relation: Taylor and Emerson; 2. Poetics and the poem: Emerson; 3. The savage source: Emerson and Stevens; Part II: 4. Crossing Leviticus: Whitman; 5. Beyond circumference: Dickinson; 6. Hand of fire: Crane; Epilogue. The regenerate lyric: Lowell and Frost.

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• Authors: Elisa New, Elisa (University of Pennsylvania) New
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107310
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10731-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies