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Voices and Visions
Helen Hennessy Vendler
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An edition of Voices and Visions (1987)

Voices and Visions

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Companion to the PBS television series. Uses the works of thirteen poets to trace the development of an American poetic identity over the past two centuries.

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Random House Inc (T)
Language
English
Pages
512

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Subjects
History and criticism, American poetry, American poetry, history and criticism, English, Lyrik, Poetry, Aufsatzsammlung
Places
United States, USA
Times
20th century

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Voices and Visions
November 1987, Random House
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Voices and Visions
June 1987, Random House Inc (T)
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Voices & visions: the poet in America
1987, Random House
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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

Introduction. Helen Vendler
Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Calvin Bedient
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Richard B. Sewall
Robert Frost (1874-1963). Richard Poirier
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Helen Vendler
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Marjorie Perloff
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Hugh Kenner
Marianne Moore (1887-1972). John M. Slatin
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). Frank Kermode
Hart Crane (1899-1932). Alan Williamson
Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Arnold Rampersad
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Helen McNeil
Robert Lowell (1917-1977). Vereen Bell
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Helen McNeil
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on the Contributors
Index

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
512

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OL9971324M
ISBN 10
0075538407
ISBN 13
9780075538400
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518145

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."

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