Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Stephen Cushman
Princeton University Press, 2014
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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
- ISBN-13
- 9780691602035
- ISBN-10
- 0691602034
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-07-14
- Pages
- 230
- Dimensions
- 155x234x15
- Weight
- 370