04009nam 2200637Ia 450 991045467540332120200520144314.00-674-04462-210.4159/9780674044623(CKB)1000000000786882(StDuBDS)AH23050932(SSID)ssj0000223119(PQKBManifestationID)11199070(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223119(PQKBWorkID)10183007(PQKB)10568041(MiAaPQ)EBC3300097(Au-PeEL)EBL3300097(CaPaEBR)ebr10312802(OCoLC)923109138(DE-B1597)574398(DE-B1597)9780674044623(EXLCZ)99100000000078688220040427d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrPoets thinking[electronic resource] Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats /Helen VendlerCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20041 online resource (160 p.) Originally published: 2004.0-674-01567-3 0-674-02110-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-137) and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Alexander Pope Thinking Miniaturizing, Modeling, and Mocking Ideas -- 2 Walt Whitman Thinking Transcription, Reprise, and Temptations Resisted -- 3 Emily Dickinson Thinking Rearranging Seriality -- 4 W. B. Yeats Thinking Thinking in Images, Thinking in Assertions -- Notes -- IndexThe four poets taken up in this volume - Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeates - come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically ideosyncratic. Helen Vendler traces these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric.Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.English poetryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismThought and thinkingEnglish-speaking countriesIntellectual lifeElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.Thought and thinking.821.009Vendler Helen1933-291362MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454675403321Poets thinking991588UNINA