The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

by Stephen Fredman

Book Overview

Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless--that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and discovers for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs--Eliot-Williams, Thoreau-Olson, Emerson-Duncan and Whitman-Creeley--and illustrates how Williams, Olson, Duncan and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent but that ultimately their poetry is paradoxically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521106745
• ISBN13: 9780521106740
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"