The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry

by Elisa New

Book Overview

Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the view that Emerson not only overthrew New England religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favour of a secular, Romantic approach. She contends that Emerson's reinvention of the religion as a species of poetry is tested and found wanting by the very poetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107318
• ISBN13: 9780521107310
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"