num_pages: 248
description: This important study of major nineteenth - and twentieth - century American poets redefines poetic tradition in America. Mutlu Konuk Blasing argues against the prevailing view that Emerson stands alone at the head of a single line of succession. She shows, rather, that four nineteenth-century poets----Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson---each established an American poetic tradition.
language: English
title: American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms
titlecomplete: American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Yale University Press