Hart Crane and Allen Tate

by Hammer, Langdon

• ISBN13: 9780691068770
• ISBN10: 0691068771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

This book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic traditions, and literary occupations were in question and at stake.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Janus-Faced Modernism
Toward the Institute of Literature and Tradition	p. 3
Tate: The Right Kind of Modernism
The Realism of The Waste Land	p. 33
Genius and the Rational Order of Criticism	p. 49
The Burial of the Confederate Dead	p. 80
Coda. "Mrs. Tate's" Tombstone	p. 105
Crane: Modernism in Reverse
A Resurrection of Some Kind	p. 117
Dice of Drowned Men's Bones	p. 145
The Floating Singer of The Bridge	p. 171
Coda. Unanswered Questions	p. 204
Beyond Modernism	p. 211
Notes	p. 233
Works Cited	p. 261
Index	p. 273
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