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Strict Wildness - Discoveries in Poetry and History (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
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Strict Wildness - Discoveries in Poetry and History (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
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A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense
but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's
selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938
through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested
in Viereck's coined phrase "strict wildness," which suggests a
balance between restraint (which by itself is staid and rigid) and
passion (which by itself is incoherent). Frost called free verse
tennis without the net. Viereck calls dead mechanical form "net
without the tennis." Strict wildness, then, is spontaneity of
feeling within strict organic form. The book explores questions of
modernism and poetic craft with respect to American poetry. It
discusses the controversy over Ezra Pound's politics and its
relation to his poetics, and the nearly forgotten poet Vachel
Lindsay. Viereck offers more general views on poetics, including
the fruitful tensions between form and content, and the impact of
modern technology on poetic expression. This book also discusses
history and politics, and contains essays on McCarthyism, the Cold
War, political conformity of the Left and Right, and issues of
historiography and culture that define Viereck's highly individual,
often critical brand of conservatism. In treating representative
trends and figures in conservative thought, Viereck insists on
clear awareness of what exists to conserve, what ought to be
conserved, and why it should be conserved. In their range and
originality, the writings brought together in "Strict Wildness"
constitute an ideal introduction to Peter Viereck's literary and
political thought. It will be of interest to literary scholars,
intellectual historians, and political scientists.
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