The Didactic Muse : Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry

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Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have returned to the poetic aims of an earlier era: to edify, as well as to delight, and thus to serve the ""didactic muse...

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Autor principal: Spiegelman, Willard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Didactic poetry, American.
Classicism.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Classicisme > États-Unis.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Classicism > United States.
Didactic poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have returned to the poetic aims of an earlier era: to edify, as well as to delight, and thus to serve the ""didactic muse."" What Spiegelman says about individual poets--such as Nemerov, Hecht, Ginsberg, Pinsky, Ammons, Rich, and Merrill, among others--is wonderfully insightful. Furthermore, his outlook on their work--the way he takes quite literally the teacherly elements of their poems--challenges long-standing conceptions
Descripción Física:1 online resource (290 pages).
ISBN:9781400860265

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