Introspection and Contemporary Poetry

Alan Williamson

    1. Introduction
    2. “I Am That I Am”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Personal Poetry
    3. Real and Numinous Selves: A Reading of Plath
    4. Language Against Itself: The Middle Generation of Contemporary Poets
    5. “Surrealism” and the Absent Self
    6. The Diffracting Diamond: Ashbery, Romanticism, and Anti-Art
    7. The Future of Personal Poetry
    • Notes
    • Credits
    • Index
  • Cover: Introspection and Contemporary Poetry

Alan Williamson, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, is a poet whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, Partisan Review and other publications; a collection of his poems, Presence, was recently published. He is also the author of Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell.