Hewing to experience [[electronic resource] ] : essays and reviews on recent American poetry and poetics, nature and culture / / Sherman Paul

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456421303321
• Autore: Paul Sherman
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989
• ISBN: 1-58729-180-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.509
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Poetics - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Insistences -- pt. 2. Emerson -- pt. 3. William Carlos Williams -- pt. 4. H.D. -- pt. 5. Hart Crane -- pt. 6. Charles Olson -- pt. 7. Robert Creeley -- pt. 8. The correspondence of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley -- pt. 9. Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry -- pt. 10. Barry Lopez.
• Sommario/riassunto: Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets out many of the insistences that give this valuable collection of essays and reviews its coherence. Considered are criticism, poetics, poetry and old age, ethnopoetics, the gift exchange of imagination, and the recent and controversial enterprise of canon formation.The fina