Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'imaginary Gardens with Real Toads.'"

by Elizabeth Gregory

In this volume Elizabeth Gregory addresses a number of key issues surrounding the formation of the American poetic canon. Taking as her primary examples T. S. Eliot's Waste Land , William Carlos Williams' Paterson , and selected poems by Marianne Moore, she examines the ways in which modern American writers struggled with questions of literary authority and cultural identity in relation to pre-existing European models. Gregory focuses on these issues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892633476
• ISBN13: 9780892633470
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"