Becoming canonical in American poetry /
Morris, Timothy,1959-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-167) and index.
Preface: The Detection and invention of 'unsuspected literatures' -- The Poetics of presence in literary reception -- Whitman as the American Homer -- Dickinson: reading the 'supposed person' -- Marianne Moore: the porcelain garden -- Constraint and recuperation in the early reception of Elizabeth Bishop -- Conclusion: the continuing presence of Dickinson.
American poetry
Criticism
Canon (Literature)