Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation 2018964543, 9780198836254, 9780192573308

The Poetry of Hart Crane 9781400878482

One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision,

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American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry 9780823242375

American Metempsychosis explores the ancient concept of metempsychosis as a precursor to the idea of history. In the wri

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The Poetry of Stephen Crane 9780231896283

Presents a picture of writer Stephen Crane through papers left by Cora Crane after her death in 1910. Although he died a

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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville [1 ed.] 0268041326, 9780268041328

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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity 9780300134810

What is the relationship between poetry and fame?   What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its a

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American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman 9780231877749

A discussion of the work of William Carlos Williams, an early American poet and physician, as it relates to that of Walt

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Ornamental Aesthetics : The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman 9780190467524, 9780190467517

Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise,

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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512806144

Agnieszka Salska's keen judicious observations add much to our understanding of the poets both as individuals and a

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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation 9780822384533

Offers a revised view of the American Renaissance that shows (a) how the debates about political representatives as they

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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman 9780199726882, 9780195007596

This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centerin

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