Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Literary Essays
Willard Spiegelman
Abstract
This volume is a collection of critical work on poetry, offering chapters that span an entire career and chart a changing relationship to an elusive form. The book takes the measure of a wide spectrum of poetry, ranging from the Romantic era to the present, through an examination of those poets whose language, formal experiments, and music have been a constant fascination. The book takes a tour of the rich and diverse landscape of British and American poetry, as it provides readings of works by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery, to name just a fe ... More
Keywords: poetry, Romantic era, poets, language, formal experiments, music, British, American
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195368130 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368130.001.0001 |
