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The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Elisa New 0521107318 9780521107310
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In her book The Regenerate Lyric, Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted historical account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the majority opinion that Emerson not only overthrew New England religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favor of a secular, Romantic approach. She contends that Emersons reinvention of the religion as a species of poetry is tested and found wanting by the very poetic innovators whom Emerson addressed and that a counter-tradition is evident in his major heirs--Whitman, Dickinson, Crane, Stevens, Frost, and Lowell. Indeed, Emersons own poetry failed in many ways to live up to his views and instead revealed an inherent paradox: that coopting of religion by a poetic theory alienates religion from its life principle--theology--and disables the poem as well.

The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Author: Elisa New

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 292

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2009-04-02


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