A New Theory for American Poetry

Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination

Angus Fletcher

Product Details

PAPERBACK

Print on Demand

$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674019881

Publication Date: 03/15/2006

Short

336 pages

5-1/8 x 7-15/16 inches

World

Add to Cart

Media Requests: [Email Address]

Related Subjects

Introduction
1. Clare’s Horizon
2. The Argument of Form
3. Description
4. Ashbery’s Clare
5. Diurnal Knowledge
6. The Whitman Phrase
7. The Environment-Poem
8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form
9. Middle Voice
10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem
11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity
12. The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way
13. Coherence
14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue
Notes
Index

Buy Elsewhere

About HUP eBooks Find at a Library »

Awards & Accolades

2005 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, Truman Capote Estate and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, by Peter H. Wilson, from Harvard University Press

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Photograph of the book Fearless Women against red/white striped background

A Conversation with Elizabeth Cobbs about Fearless Women

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the work of Elizabeth Cobbs, whose new book Fearless Women shows how the movement for women’s rights has been deeply entwined with the history of the United States since its founding. Cobbs traces the lives of pathbreaking women who, inspired by American ideals, fought for the cause in their own ways…