03043nam 2200733 a 450 991095537760332120250601040053.09780674037014067403701410.4159/9780674037014(CKB)1000000000805573(StDuBDS)AH23050689(SSID)ssj0000486151(PQKBManifestationID)11347179(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486151(PQKBWorkID)10430289(PQKB)10748275(MiAaPQ)EBC3300652(Au-PeEL)EBL3300652(CaPaEBR)ebr10328830(OCoLC)923112663(DE-B1597)571824(DE-B1597)9780674037014(Perlego)1132778(EXLCZ)99100000000080557320030620d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA new theory for American poetry democracy, the environment, and the future of imagination /Angus Fletcher1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20041 online resource (ix, 316 p.)Formerly CIP.Uk9780674012011 0674012011 9780674019881 0674019881 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-310) and index.Frontmatter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Introduction --1 Clare’s Horizon --2 The Argument of Form --3 Description --4 Ashbery’s Clare --5 Diurnal Knowledge --6 The Whitman Phrase --7 The Environment-Poem --8 Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form --9 Middle Voice --10 Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem --11 Meditating Chaos and Complexity --12 “The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way” --13 Coherence --14 Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue --Notes --IndexRather than treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the English writer John Clare - he then centres on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman.American poetryHistory and criticismTheory, etcEnvironmental protection in literatureDemocracy in literatureEcology in literatureNature in literatureImaginationAmerican poetryHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Environmental protection in literature.Democracy in literature.Ecology in literature.Nature in literature.Imagination.811.009Fletcher Angus1930-2016.202793MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955377603321A new theory for American poetry4351824UNINA