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Lucifer in Harness: American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction

Lucifer in Harness: American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction

Fussell, Edwin S.

Paperback

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 1780

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0691618844
ISBN13: 9780691618845
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 8 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

For nearly two hundred years the rebellious American poet has been reluctantly harnessed to the English language and literary tradition. In a triptych of essays, Edwin Fussell attempts to explore the fundamental dilemma of American poetry as it appears in the three crucial fields of meter, metaphor, and poetic diction, the three crucial fields of American poetry (taken as a whole) most studiously avoided by American scholars, but not, as I intend to show, by American poets.

Writing in a provocative critical style attuned to the poets he discusses, Edwin Fussell explores the dilemma of the American poet who wants to write a distinctly American poetry but must do so in a language imbued with the sensibility of English poetry and culture. Because these are different from and sometimes antithetical to American cultural ideals and commitments, the harness chafes. The emphasis is on those poets who have successfully created a truly American poetry--Poe, Whitman, Pound, Eliot, and Williams--but the author also discusses Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Emerson, Bryant, Lowell, and Frost, among others.

Originally published in 1973.

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