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

by Jake Adam York

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

ISBN-10 041597058X

ISBN-13 9780415970587

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 11th, 2004

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 590 grams

Dimensions 16.30 x 23.50 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Literature: history & criticism

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This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.

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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