The poetry of Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Atlantic 2003Description: 390pISBN: 8126901861Subject(s): English literature | English poetry | Robert Frost | William Carlos WilliamsDDC classification: 821.409 Summary: This book fulfils the difficult task of Quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time: Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. It puts their creative Act under scrutiny by the common parameter of a critical canon, aiming to place them as poets at a vantage point where the idea of man speaking out on behalf of man can find its true and free expression. Written in a lucid style, and with a content that remain a landmark in American studies by an Indian academic, the book does also privilege a deeper understanding of American poetry in general while Problematizing its inherent opposition between the egocentric as against the theocentric, man without history as against history without man, The antinomian as against the orthodox, personality as against culture and the adamic as against the mythic.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 821.409 HAR/P (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 17632 |
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821.4 MIL/P Paradise lost | 821.4 MIL/P Paradise lost | 821.4 PAR Paradise lost | 821.409 HAR/P The poetry of Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams | 821.5 POP/R The rape of the lock: an heroi-comical poem | 821.509 JOH John Donne | 821.509 POP Pope: The rape of the lock: a casebook |
Includes index.
This book fulfils the difficult task of Quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time: Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. It puts their creative Act under scrutiny by the common parameter of a critical canon, aiming to place them as poets at a vantage point where the idea of man speaking out on behalf of man can find its true and free expression.
Written in a lucid style, and with a content that remain a landmark in American studies by an Indian academic, the book does also privilege a deeper understanding of American poetry in general while Problematizing its inherent opposition between the egocentric as against the theocentric, man without history as against history without man, The antinomian as against the orthodox, personality as against culture and the adamic as against the mythic.
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