Hewing to experience : essays and reviews on recent American poetry and poetics, nature and culture / Sherman Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Sherman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Poetics--History--20th century.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781587291807

1587291800

OCLC:

44964845