Heresy and the ideal
Subtitle: on contemporary poetry
By: David Baker.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "Heresy and the Ideal is a collection of essays and essay-reviews which David Baker wrote and published throughout the 1990s. He thoroughly discusses the work of more than fifty contemporary poets. He takes as his models some of the great critical books of the past three decades, especially Richard Howard's masterpiece, Alone with America, and Helen Vendler's Part of Nature, Part of Us, as well as works by Laurence Lieberman, Majorie Perloff, Carol Muske, and Mary Kinzie.".

"At its center, Heresy and the Ideal is based on Baker's sense of Romantic poetics, especially on how contemporary poets have applied, altered, or rejected certain Romantic principles. He uses the Romantic trope to measure the tension between passion and reason and between the problems of literary transcendence and the obligations of social engagement."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.