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The Regenerate Lyric - Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Hardcover)
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The Regenerate Lyric - Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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In her book The Regenerate Lyric, Elisa New presents a major
revision of the accepted historical account of Emerson as the
source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the
majority opinion that Emerson not only overthrew New England
religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that
fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favor 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 innovators whom Emerson addressed and that a
counter-tradition is evident in his major heirs--Whitman,
Dickinson, Crane, Stevens, Frost, and Lowell. Indeed, Emerson's own
poetry failed in many ways to live up to his views and instead
revealed an inherent paradox: that coopting of religion by a poetic
theory alienates religion from its life principle--theology--and
disables the poem as well.
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