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Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / John Michael.
LIBRA PS309.L8 M53 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michael, John, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Lyric poetry--History and criticism.
- Lyric poetry.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd
- Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity
- Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss
- Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd
- Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death
- The poet as lyric reader
- Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0823279723
- 9780823279722
- OCLC:
- 1002291927
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