What is it then between us?
traditions of love in American poetry
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Author
Publication
1998 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
62,750 words, Guess
Page Count
251 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL684244M
- ISBN-100801432626
- OCLC Control Number37492459
- OCLC Control Numberwhatisitthenbetw0000seli
- Library of Congress Control Number97031041
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- Goodreads4479095
- LibraryThing3736855
Classifications
- DDC811.009/3543
- LCCPS310.L65 S45 1998
Description
What is it then between us? Walt Whitman asks in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In this generous, imaginative study, Eric Murphy Selinger uses Whitman's question to open a welcome new perspective on American poetry. From Anne Bradstreet to Adrienne Rich and James Merrill, Selinger contends, American poets have seen issues in poetics - the poem "between us" - as inextricable from questions of love. Tracing the solitude of the American self, the difference between idolatrous and companionate affection, and the dream of an "America of love," Selinger shows how such concerns can shape a poet's most intimate decisions about genre and form. His prose illuminates not only well-known love poets, including Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams, but also more unexpected figures, notably Wallace Stevens and Mina Loy. Like the poets he discusses, Selinger refuses to view love reductively. Rather, he takes the impulse to debunk love as part of his subject, whether it crops up in Puritan theology or contemporary literary theory.
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