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Fictions of Form in American Poetry

Paperback
Published : Monday 14 July 2014
ISBN : 9780691602035
Price : €35.10


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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 Ame



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