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James Wright - Poetry Of Grown Man (Hardcover)
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James Wright - Poetry Of Grown Man (Hardcover)
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Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of
James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from
traditional to more experimental forms, few have noted also the
elements of constancy in the evolution of his poetry. In this first
comprehensive scholarly introduction to Wright's work, Stein traces
the unified growth of Wright's poetry, asserting that while
stylistic changes are often more apparent than actual, Wright does
undergo a continuing personal and aesthetic development throughout
his career. Stein examines the entire body of Wright's poetry,
including such previously unpublished materials as the collection
Amenities of Stone. Stein locates Wright in the Emersonian
tradition which sees struggle with language as a struggle with the
self -- a locating and defining of the self within a world of
natural facts. Language, then, becomes a means of self-definition,
and to be frivolous or irresponsible with language becomes a
negation of the self and the world it inhabits. For Wright,
\u201cthe poetry of a grown man\u201d issues from this
understanding. Because Wright joins the act of language with the
act of selfhood, it is not surprising that the mode and tenor of
his work would alter as the self redefines its values and goals,
its very identity. In fact, Stein divides Wright's career into
three interrelated stages of development: \u201ccontainment,\u201d
in which he relies on traditional religious and rhetorical measures
to distance himself from a world of experience;
\u201cvulnerability,\u201d in which he enters the experiential
world where the self is rewarded and equally threatened; and
\u201cintegration,\u201d in which he accepts and balances the
necessary combination of beauty and horror inherent in being human
within a natural world. Stein shows that throughout his career
Wright's presiding concern is to discover a way of writing and a
way of life that might overcome the effects of an individual's
separation from the human community, the natural world, and the
spiritual presence in the universe. In Wright's world, to do less
is to betray one's language -- and one's self.
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