The Lines Eye

Auteur

Elisa New is Professor of English at Harvard University and author of The Regenerate Lyric.

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Dewey. As these philosophers insisted, and as New's readings prove, art is where the experience of experience can be had: to read, as to write, a poem is to let the line guide one's way.

Résumé
By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests the claim that American vision is implicitly possessive. She argues that American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow.

Contenu
Acknowledgments Introduction: Poetic Experience Theories and Practices Range-finding Line's Eye, Lit Stream; Jefferson, Audubon, and Thoreau Nature The Force of the Fable: Thoreau, Dickinson, and Moore So Much Depends: Audubon, Dickinson, and Williams Culture To Set the Voices Speaking: Jefferson, Williams, and Frost Work, Works, Working: Edwards, Frost, and Moore Notes Works Cited Index