Fictions of Form in American Poetry
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| ISBN | 9780691602035 |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Price (excl. tax) | €44.25 |
| Tax | €2.65 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €46.90 |
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In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that Ame