Democracy And Poetry
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Democracy And Poetry
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1975
Democracy And Poetry written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
In these two essays, one of America's most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. "I really don't want to make a noise like a pundit," Mr. Warren declares, "What I do want to do is to return us--and myself most of all--to a scrutiny of our own experience of our own world." Indeed, Democracy and Poetry offers one of the most pertinent and strongly personal meditations on our condition to have appeared in recent letters. Our native "poetry," that is, literature and art, in general, is a social document, is "diagnostic," and has often been a corrosive criticism of our democracy, Mr. Warren argues. Persuasively, and movingly, he shows that all of "art" and all that goes into the making of democracy require a free and responsible self. Yet the American experience has been one of the decay of the notion of self. Our astounding success jeopardized what we promised to create--the free man. For a century and a half the conception of the self has been dwindling, separating itself from traditional values, moral identity, and a secure relation with community. Lonely heroes in a bankrupt civilization, then protest, despair, aimlessness, and violence, have marked our literature. The anguish of Robert Penn Warren's own poetic vision of art and democracy is soothed only by his belief that poetry--the making of art can nourish and at least do something toward the rescue of democracy; he shows how art can be- come a healer, can be "therapeutic." In the face of disintegrative forces set loose in a business and technetronic society, it is poetry that affirms the notion of the self. It is a model of the organized self, an emblem of the struggle for the achieving self, and of the self in a community. More and more as our modern technetronic society races toward the abolition of the self, and diverges from a culture created to enhance the notion of selfhood, poetry becomes indispensable. Compelling, resonant, memorable, Democracy and Poetry is a major testament not only to the vitality of poetry, but also to a faith in democracy.
Democracy And Poetry
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Author : Francis Barton Gummere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Democracy And Poetry written by Francis Barton Gummere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Democracy categories.
Democracy Culture And The Voice Of Poetry
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Author : Robert Pinsky
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-11
Democracy Culture And The Voice Of Poetry written by Robert Pinsky and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as it is familiar. Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemies is to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound themes at the very heart of democratic culture. There is no one in America better to write on this topic. One of the country's most accomplished poets, Robert Pinsky served an unprecedented two terms as America's Poet Laureate (1997-2000) and led the immensely popular multimedia Favorite Poem Project, which invited Americans to submit and read aloud their favorite poems. Pinsky draws on his experiences and on characteristically sharp and elegant observations of individual poems to argue that expecting poetry to compete with show business is to mistake its greatest democratic strength--its intimate, human scale--as a weakness. As an expression of individual voice, a poem implicitly allies itself with ideas about individual dignity that are democracy's bedrock, far more than is mass participation. Yet poems also summon up communal life.. Even the most inward-looking work imagines a reader. And in their rhythms and cadences poems carry in their very bones the illusion and dynamic of call and response. Poetry, Pinsky writes, cannot help but mediate between the inner consciousness of the individual reader and the outer world of other people. As part of the entertainment industry, he concludes, poetry will always be small and overlooked. As an art--and one that is inescapably democratic--it is massive and fundamental.
Democracy And Poetry
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Author : RP Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975-07-01
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Democracy And Poetry Classic Reprint
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Author : Francis B. Gummere
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Democracy And Poetry Classic Reprint written by Francis B. Gummere and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Democracy and Poetry Put forth by an ingenious writer in regard to the likelihood that artistic and delicately adjusted relations of a group of words in prose shall be substituted for the melody and the metaphor once achieved in the now exhausted individual word of verse. Only a general con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Democracy In The Poetry Of Walt Whitman
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Author : Thomas Riggs
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2012-10-05
Democracy In The Poetry Of Walt Whitman written by Thomas Riggs and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-05 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
This informative edition explores Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of democracy. Chapters include an examination of Whitman's life and influences, a look at key ideas related to democracy in Whitman's poetry, and a series of essays that explore topics such as Whitman's views of democratic comradeship, the role of bonds between men, Whitman's approach to patriotism, and Whitman's contradictory views on slavery and race. Readers are also presented with contemporary perspectives on democracy, such as the importance of an informed electorate and the impact of American individualism on contemporary politics.
Democracy And Poetry
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Author : Francis B. Gummere
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
Democracy And Poetry written by Francis B. Gummere and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
A New Theory For American Poetry
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Author : Angus FLETCHER
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
A New Theory For American Poetry written by Angus FLETCHER and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Poetry categories.
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
Democracy Poetry
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Author : Francis Barton 1855-1919 Gummere
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Democracy Poetry written by Francis Barton 1855-1919 Gummere and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
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Democracy In Contemporary U S Women S Poetry
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Author : N. Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Democracy In Contemporary U S Women S Poetry written by N. Marsh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.