Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231058940
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.