The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet

by Albert Gelpi

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In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets (Rich, Ginsberg, Duncan) as frames for those...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674874412

ISBN13:9780674874411

Release Date:January 1975

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:348 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

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American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Genres & Styles History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Poetry

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