Voices and Visions
Publisher: Random House Inc (T)
Published: June 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780075538400
Subjects: Poetry & poets; USA
First sentence: Americans had at first to invent American art out of the Augustan culture of England--of all cultures the most rational and refined, the least like the sublime barbarousness supposed natural to early America.
Table of contents: value: Introduction. Helen Vendler; value: Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Calvin Bedient; value: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Richard B. Sewall; value: Robert Frost (1874-1963). Richard Poirier; value: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Helen Vendler; value: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Marjorie Perloff; value: Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Hugh Kenner; value: Marianne Moore (1887-1972). John M. Slatin; value: T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). Frank Kermode; value: Hart Crane (1899-1932). Alan Williamson; value: Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Arnold Rampersad; value: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Helen McNeil; value: Robert Lowell (1917-1977). Vereen Bell; value: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Helen McNeil; value: Notes; value: Suggestions for Further Reading; value: Notes on the Contributors; value: Index