Fictions of Form in American Poetry

Stephen Cushman

Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
230
ISBN
9780691631615

Fictions of Form in American Poetry

Stephen Cushman

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 Ame

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