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The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet

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In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets as frames for those predecessors. Originally published in 1975 in hardcover only by Harvard University Press

Language: English

Pages: 358

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 27, 1991

ISBN: 0521424011

ISBN 13: 9780521424011

The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet

3/5 ( ratings)

In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets as frames for those predecessors. Originally published in 1975 in hardcover only by Harvard University Press

Language: English

Pages: 358

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 27, 1991

ISBN: 0521424011

ISBN 13: 9780521424011

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