Introspection and Contemporary Poetry

by Alan Williamson

In this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experiment--from the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montage--like methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674462769
• ISBN13: 9780674462762
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"