The Grounding of American Poetry

Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

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Stephen Fredman

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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.

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Release date Australia

May 28th, 1993

Author

Stephen Fredman

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

186

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

160x237x13

ISBN-13

9780521443036

Product ID

2397531

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