Poetry for Students

94 Poetry for Students

Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James

Dickey, Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

In this article, Kirschten, who has written much about

Ammons, writes about Ammons in terms of the sim-

ilarities between his ideas and Eastern philosophy.

Schneider, Steven P., A. R. Ammons and the Poetics of

Widening Scope, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

1994.

Schneider examines the ways in which Ammons’s

overall poetic vision can be seen in the imagery,

form, and subject matter of his poems.

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