| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-163) and index.
Contents: 1. Williams, Eliot, and American tradition. 'Tradition ... cannot beinherited' 'The premise that serves to fix us fixes also that part ofthem which we remember' 'The otherness of tradition' -- 2. Finding outfor oneself. 'Face to face to a fact' 'One saturation job' 'Theattention, and / the care' 'A certain doubleness by which I stand asremote from myself as from another' -- 3. Resistance and poeticcommunity. 'Ground, wall, cannon, tower' 'To find the secret of it' 'Itake it wisdom, like style, is the man' 'Everything issues from theBlack Chrysanthemum' Self-exile and the community -- 4. The poetics ofrecognition. 'If men constructed their dwellings with their own hands''A whole series of new recognitions' 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 15''He goes to war with a picture' -- 5. Circles and boundaries. 'The realhas just these boundaries we are willing to imagine' 'Transgressing theReal' 'Eris in Eros' -- 6. Conclusion. Endlessly rocking: Creeley andWhitman on repetition. |
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