American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry

by Justin Quinn

American Errancy is a wide-ranging study of the connection between ideology and the sublime in the work of twentieth-century poets, all American with two, or perhaps three important exceptions. The poets chosen are in debate with the Romantic individualism of Emerson - some reject it outright, but the remainder have devoted substantial work to adjusting to the changed circumstances of their century. The link between Romantic individualism and ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904558356
• ISBN13: 9781904558354
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"