TY  - GEN
T1  - Lucifer in harness : American meter, metaphor, and diction
T2  - Princeton legacy library.
A1  - Fussell, Edwin S.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1973
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn905863426
AB  - For nearly two hundred years the rebellious American poet has been reluctantly harnessed to the English language and literary tradition. In a triptych of essays, Edwin Fussell attempts ""to explore the fundamental dilemma of American poetry as it appears in the three crucial fields of meter, metaphor, and poetic diction, the three crucial fields of American poetry (taken as a whole) most studiously avoided by American scholars, but not, as I intend to show, by American poets."" Writing in a provocative critical style attuned to the poets he discusses, Edwin Fussell explores the dilemma of t.
OP  - 198
CN  - PS305 .F8 1973eb
SN  - 9781400869077
SN  - 1400869072
SN  - 9780691618845
SN  - 0691618844
KW  - American poetry : History and criticism.
KW  - Poésie américaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry.
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -