Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / by Michael, John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The secularization of the lyric: the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd -- Poe's posthumanism: melancholy and the music of modernity -- Poe and the origins of modern poetry: tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss -- Whitman's poetics and death: the poet, metonymy, and the crowd -- Whitman and democracy: the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death -- The poet as lyric reader -- Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.…”

Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / by Michael, John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd -- Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity -- Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss -- Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd -- Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death -- The poet as lyric reader -- Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.…”
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