The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight

by Elisa New

Book Overview

Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests this claim. A new reading of how poetry sees, her work is a passionate defense of the power of the poem, the ethics of perception, and the broader possibilities of American sight.

American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674534638
• ISBN13: 9780674534636
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"