Modern American Poetry
(^72) Alan Trachtenberg close to “the most beautiful Bridge of the world.” He crossed the bridge often, alone and with friends, ...
The Shadow of a Myth 73 poem, it will leap far beyond the street, but its function will be similar: an emblem of the eternal, pr ...
(^74) Alan Trachtenberg history according to a pattern he derived from its facts. His version of American history has nothing in ...
The Shadow of a Myth 75 West of the pioneers. In a sense, the entire day is a dream; the poet journeys through his own conscious ...
(^76) Alan Trachtenberg out to find Pocahontas, the spirit of the land. With Rip Van Winkle his Muse of Memory, and the Twentiet ...
The Shadow of a Myth 77 II Brooklyn Bridge lay at the end of the poet’s journey, the pledge of a “cognizance” that would explain ...
(^78) Alan Trachtenberg And obscure as that heaven of the Jews, Thy guerdon ... Accolade thou dost bestow Of anonymity time cann ...
The Shadow of a Myth 79 “epiphanal” as well as spectral and subjective). Then, in a further transmutation, they become a “page o ...
(^80) Alan Trachtenberg If the “Proem” promised deliverance, “The Tunnel” seems to deliver damnation; its chief character is a D ...
The Shadow of a Myth 81 deteriorated noticeably,^9 Crane searched for a way to acknowledge the unhappy reality of America withou ...
(^82) Alan Trachtenberg images of voyage; the bridge becomes a ship which, in stanza seven, “left the haven hanging in the night ...
The Shadow of a Myth 83 skepticism about his “myth of America,” Crane stated the problem in his own terms. “Intellectually judge ...
(^84) Alan Trachtenberg inspiring the revived theme of the Northwest Passage in the nineteenth century, and Atlantis even yet ar ...
The Shadow of a Myth 85 The question mayindicate doubt that the bridge does in fact represent the “mystic consummation” of Catha ...
(^86) Alan Trachtenberg Brom Weber, Hart Crane: A Biographical and Critical Study(New York, 1948); L.S. Dembo, Hart Crane’s Sans ...
The Shadow of a Myth 87 “bind” the reader to the new perceptions. It is quite easy to see how attractive these ideas were to Har ...
(^88) Alan Trachtenberg Manhattan Transfer(New York, 1925); Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock(New York, 1938); Vladimir Mayakov ...
89 Moral the tree moving diversely in all parts— During the decade and a half that followed Kora in Hell,Williams engaged in a v ...
(^90) Thomas R. Whitaker new Cubist constructions that enact the swift transit of the attention or raise the disorder of the mom ...
Open to the Weather 91 where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees are a southern breeze—or a gust of snow. Agh! what sort o ...
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