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Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Hardcover)
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Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers
would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the
sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude
was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing
the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen
Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal
aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship
between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this
book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as
diverse as Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound describe their own poetic
forms, and he investigates links and analogies between poets'
notions of form and their notions of "Americanness.". The book
begins with a brief discussion of Whitman, who said, "The United
States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Cushman takes
this to mean that American poetry has succeeded in making fictions
about itself which persuade its readers that its uniqueness
transcends merely geographical boundaries. He explores the truth of
this statement by considering the Americanness of Emily Dickinson,
Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and A. R. Ammons. He concludes that
the uniqueness of American poetry lies not so much in its forms as
in its formalism and in the various attitudes that formalism
reveals. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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