LEADER 04009nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910454675403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04462-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674044623 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786882 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223119 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199070 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223119 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10183007 035 $a(PQKB)10568041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300097 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312802 035 $a(OCoLC)923109138 035 $a(DE-B1597)574398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674044623 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786882 100 $a20040427d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoets thinking$b[electronic resource] $ePope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats /$fHelen Vendler 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2004. 311 $a0-674-01567-3 311 $a0-674-02110-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 121-137) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Alexander Pope Thinking Miniaturizing, Modeling, and Mocking Ideas -- $t2 Walt Whitman Thinking Transcription, Reprise, and Temptations Resisted -- $t3 Emily Dickinson Thinking Rearranging Seriality -- $t4 W. B. Yeats Thinking Thinking in Images, Thinking in Assertions -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 330 $bPoetry 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. 606 $aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aThought and thinking 607 $aEnglish-speaking countries$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aThought and thinking. 676 $a821.009 700 $aVendler$b Helen$f1933-$0291362 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454675403321 996 $aPoets thinking$9991588 997 $aUNINA