Modern American Poetry

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American Fiction Between the Wars American Naturalism The American Renaissance Edwardian and Georgian Fiction The Eighteenth Cen ...

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BLOOM’SPERIODSTUDIES Modern American Poetry Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities ...

©2005 by Chelsea House Publishers, a subsidiary of Haights Cross Communications. http://www.chelseahouse.com Introduction © 2005 ...

Editor’s Note vii Introduction 1 Harold Bloom Motives and Motifs in the Poetry of Marianne Moore 35 Kenneth Burke Mauberley 53 H ...

Late Poems: Places, Common and Other 233 Eleanor Cook Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 253 Edward Hirsch Dice of Dro ...

vii My Introduction comments upon eight poets: E.A. Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound ...

viii Editor’s Note Langdon Hammer traces the antithetical influences of William Blake and T.S. Eliot on the young Hart Crane. Ka ...

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Emerson himself was a product of New England and a man of strong moral habits.... He gave to American r ...

(^2) Harold Bloom Emerson well before, but it is fascinating that he came to essays like “Fate” and “Power” only after writing “ ...

Introduction 3 It is the promise of the day That makes the starry sky sublime; It is the faith within the fear That holds us to ...

(^4) Harold Bloom There is a fine passage in “Captain Craig” where the talkative captain asks: “Is it better to be blinded by th ...

Introduction 5 anyone’s, in his cosmos. This supposed nature-poet represents his harsh landscapes as a full version of the Gnost ...

(^6) Harold Bloom seem to be “Directive” writ large, as though Emerson had been brooding upon his descendant: We cannot write th ...

Introduction 7 WALLACE STEVENS “Leave the many and hold the few,” Emerson advises in his late poem “Terminus,” thus sanctioning ...

(^8) Harold Bloom Not as in air, bright-blue-resembling air, But as in the powerful mirror of my wish and will.” The principal d ...

Introduction 9 figurations, but he sees himself cleansed in the vitalizing mirror of will as he could never hope to see himself ...

(^10) Harold Bloom the imagination is only decaying sense, must ask himself: Why is he so moved by this transfiguration of langu ...

Introduction 11 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poetic influence, an intensely problematical process, normally brings together a strong ...