Poetry and Pragmatism

by Richard Poirier

Book Overview

Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674679911
• ISBN13: 9780674679917
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"