The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

by Stephen Fredman

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Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless--that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and discovers for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs--Eliot-Williams, Thoreau-Olson, Emerson-Duncan and Whitman-Creeley--and illustrates how Williams, Olson, Duncan and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent but that ultimately their poetry is paradoxically...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521106745

ISBN13:9780521106740

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:188 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry

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