James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems

by Robert Kirschten and Kirschten

Robert Kirschten maintains that most formal analyses of Jams Dickey's poetry have been unsatisfactory or at best only partially complete. Some critics have labeled Dickey an American romantic, while others have called him a mystic, a pantheist, a comic poet.

In James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth, Kirschten provides a fuller understanding of Dickey's lyric vision by employing what Ronald Crane calls "multiple working hypotheses."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080712687X
• ISBN13: 9780807126875
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"