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The modern voice in American poetry / William Doreski. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doreski, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- American poetry--History and criticism--20th century--United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 179 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Proposing that modern American poetry requires "limber criticism," informed but not straitjacketed by contemporary theory, William Doreski links the major American modernists to each other and to the larger social and cultural world. His concerns include voice, rhetoric, history, and interiority (imagination) and exteriority (landscape). Doreski examines the work of well-known poets - concentrating on Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell, but also including Alan Dugan, Robert Pinsky, John Ashbery, and Louise Gluck - from a fresh angle, often focusing on less-discussed poems (such as Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady"). Modernist poets experienced a vast shift in the relationship between poetry and society. Two principal themes underlie Doreski's criticism of their work: first, that they turned to drama, prose fiction, and extraliterary sources to expand the rhetorical range of their poetics; second, that their poetry demonstrates their conflict between a responsibility to history, tradition, or society and their desire to generate a world of their own making.
- Contents:
- Frost : lyric monologue and landscape
- Stevens : allegorial landscape and myth
- Williams and Moore : history and the colloquial style
- Eliot and Pound : political discourse and the voicing of difference
- Lowell : autobiography and vulnerability.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-173) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-09748-8
- 0-8130-1940-0
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