American Experimental Poetry

by Alan Marshall

Alan Marshall examines the nature of democratic thought and expression in American experimental poetry, from Walt Whitman in the mid-nineteenth century to George Oppen and Frank O'Hara in the mid-late twentieth. The book's origins lie in Alexis de Tocqueville's ambivalent discussion of 'Some Sources of Poetic Inspiration in Democracies' in the second volume of his Democracy in America. It begins with a chapter on Tocqueville and Whitman, followed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199561923
• ISBN13: 9780199561926
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"