the monument and public speech in American poetry /
Jake Adam York.
New York :
Routledge,
2005.
1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-217) and index.
Getting in the way : the architecture of address -- The street or ferry-boat or public assembly : Whitman and the making of monument -- Crossing over Brooklyn Ferry : the bridge as monument -- In common : Lowell, Whitman, Crane, and the making of a mode -- In Lowell's wake, in Lowell's way : the monumental mode in the late twentieth century.
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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.
Architecture of address.
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Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892
American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.