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  1. Lucifer in harness
    American meter, metaphor, and diction
    Published: 1973
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, [Princeton, New Jersey]

    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... more

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    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 t

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400869077; 1400869072
    Series: Princeton Legacy Library
    Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; American poetry; American poetry -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Poetry; American poetry; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (198 pages)
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    Preface; 1: The Meter-Making Argument; 2: The Constituting Metaphor; 3: What the Thunder Said

  2. Lucifer in harness
    American meter, metaphor, and diction
    Published: 1973; © 1973
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, [Princeton, New Jersey]

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400869077; 1400869072; 9780691618845; 0691618844
    Series: Princeton legacy library
    Subjects: American poetry / History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; American poetry; Metapher; Lyrik; Metrik
    Scope: 1 online resource (198 pages)
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    Preface; 1: The Meter-Making Argument; 2: The Constituting Metaphor; 3: What the Thunder Said

    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 t