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The American quest for a supreme fiction : Whitman's legacy in the personal epic
- Title
- The American quest for a supreme fiction : Whitman's legacy in the personal epic / James E. Miller, Jr.
- Author
- Miller, James E. (James Edwin), 1920-2010.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 360 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction analyzes the essential characteristics and central forces in the development of this mode. James E. Miller, one of America's foremost Whitman scholars, divides his study into three parts corresponding to the growth of the American epic. He first explores its philosophical "Roots and Trunk" in the poetry and critical works of Whitman (with reference to how this philosophy appears in the work of Berryman, Lowell, and Stevens); in the second part he traces the "Branches" of Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Crane; and, in his first section, "Leaves," Miller examines the contemporary work of Olson, Berryman, and Ginsberg"--Back cover.
- Subject
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Influence
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- 1900-1999
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Epic poetry, American > History and criticism
- Poetry > Psychological aspects
- Self in literature
- Epic poetry > History and criticism
- American poetry
- Epic poetry, American
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Poetic metamorphoses: Lowell and Berryman (a prologue) -- The care and feeding of long poems: the American epic from Barlow to Berryman -- She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware: Walt Whitman's epic creation -- Meditations on a recipe for a modern American epic: Wallace Stevens's "Notes toward a supreme fiction" -- An epic is a poem containing history: Ezra Pound's Cantos -- Personal mood transmuted into epic: T.S. Eliot's Waste Land -- How shall I be mirror to this modernity?: William Carlos Williams's Paterson -- An epic of the modern consciousness: Hart Crane's Bridge -- Making a mappemunde to include my being: Charles Olson's Maximus poems -- The American bard / Embarrassed Henry heard himself a-being: John Berryman's Dream Songs -- Dreaming of the lost America of love: Allen Ginsberg's Fall of America -- Bards of the great idea: Seekers of the supreme fiction. rc.
- Call Number
- JFE 79-2920
- ISBN
- 0226526119
- 9780226526119
- LCCN
- 78015176
- OCLC
- 4135235
- Author
- Miller, James E. (James Edwin), 1920-2010.
- Title
- The American quest for a supreme fiction : Whitman's legacy in the personal epic / James E. Miller, Jr.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 79-2920