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 as an inscription of imperial
national ideology would allow. Moreover, New argues, their ways of
seeing draw on, and develop, a vigorous mode of national
representation alternative to the appropriative sort found in the
quintessential American genre of encounter, the romance. Grounding
her readings of Dickinson, Frost, Moore, and Williams in
foundational texts by Edwards, Jefferson, Audubon, and Thoreau, New
shows how varieties of attentiveness and solicitude cultivated in
the early literature are realized in later poetry. She then
discloses how these ideas infuse the philosophical notions about
pragmatic experience codified by Emerson, James, and Dewey. As
these philosophers insisted, and as New's readings prove, art is
where the experience of experience can be had: to read, as to
write, a poem is to let the line guide one's way.
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