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The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters


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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780838637906
ISBN: 0838637906
Label: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Manufacturer: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 211
Publication Date: 1998-10
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Studio: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press


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This study places Bronck's work in relation to the New England literary tradition, Modernism and the Objectivist and Black Mountain schools. These are discussions of Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson and Emerson and twentieth-century figures such as Frost, Stevens, Olson, Creeley, Corman and Oppen.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Topos of contemporary american poetry revealed...
Kimmelman's use of an overall presentation of Bronk's "World" in peregrinations both biographical and literary, serves both contemporary theory and literary history in this very readable survey of one of this century's most influential poets and thinkers. I found myself finally liberated, along with Bronk, from the yoke of Stevens' mind-bending alteration of the american poetic topos, free to investigate the strands and filaments of this poet's lexical world with new license. A rewarding journey, ... Read More




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