The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian TraditionCambridge University Press, 28.05.1993 - 170 Seiten Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless--that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and discovers for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs--Eliot-Williams, Thoreau-Olson, Emerson-Duncan and Whitman-Creeley--and illustrates how Williams, Olson, Duncan and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent but that ultimately their poetry is paradoxically grounded in an essential groundlessness. In order to demonstrate how approaches to groundlessness have persisted over time, Fredman explores the measures taken by these American poets to provide a provisional ground upon which to build their poetry: inventing idiosyncratic traditions, forming poetic communities, engaging in polemical prose, assessing all the dimensions of particular places, and treating words as emblematic and mysterious objects. At the very center of the book stands Charles Olson, whose work so dramatically articulates the whole range of issues arising from the American poet's anxious search for, and resistance to, an authentic and unified tradition. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
2 | 26 |
A certain doubleness by which I stand as remote | 39 |
3 | 47 |
The poetics of recognition | 73 |
Circles and boundaries | 94 |
Conclusion | 131 |
Notes | 151 |
165 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Grain American poets become Black Chrysanthemum Black Mountain Black Mountain College Black Mountain poets bottomless boundaries Butterick called central Charles Olson circle collage containment context Creeley's critics culture dance Denise Levertov Eliot Emersonian Enyalion essay experience explore fact field figure Gadamer Gerhardt Gloucester glyph ground groundlessness Hermes hieroglyphic human ideas ideogram idiosyncratic tradition imagination individual insists issues Kingfishers language Levertov Maximus Poems meaning metaphor modern modernist mysterious myths nature objects Olson and Thoreau oneself passage picture-writing Poet's Prose poetic community poetry political possible Pound present Press projective verse projectivist reading recognition recognize relationship resistant Rime Robert Creeley Robert Duncan says secret self-contained sense Shils speaks Stanley Cavell T. S. Eliot texts things Thoreau tion transgression truth Univ Walden Pond Whitman whole William Carlos Williams Williams's wisdom words writing
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