Whitman's Queer Children: America's Homosexual Epics

by Catherine A. Davies

Book Overview

Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertakes extensive close readings of Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628923180
• ISBN13: 9781628923186
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"