Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry /
Authorial self-consciousness as the fundamental site of poetry. Extended discussions of Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich test modes of self-consciousness for their power to handle the kinds of problems the other poems create or encounter
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1984
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : 1984 Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : 1984 Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : 1984 |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 2 Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
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Table of Contents:
- Self and sensibility in contemporary poetry
- The dominant poetic mode of the late seventies
- The pressure to transform
- The paradoxes of contemporary antiromanticism
- Robert Creeley's poetics of conjecture : the pains and pleasures of staging a self at war with its own lyric desires
- John Ashbery : discursive rhetoric within a poetics of thinking
- Self-reflection as action : the recent work of Adrienne Rich
- Epilogue : criticism and contemporary poetry