The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry

The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
ISBN-10
113587767X
ISBN-13
9781135877675
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2004-05-01
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Jake Adam York

Description

The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.

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