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The 'Winter Mind'. William Bronk and American Letters.
Burt Kimmelman
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Description for The 'Winter Mind'. William Bronk and American Letters.
hardcover. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
This first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our most important contemporary poets and essayists, locates his work in relation to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England literary tradition, to later twentieth-century modernism, and to the subsequent Objectivist and Black Mountain schools of poetry. Through special attention to his uniquely elegant style, this study demonstrates how Bronk has brought together earlier American poetics and philosophy with modern and postmodern notions of being, emptiness, and nothingness. This book features extensive discussions of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens, ... Read more
This first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our most important contemporary poets and essayists, locates his work in relation to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England literary tradition, to later twentieth-century modernism, and to the subsequent Objectivist and Black Mountain schools of poetry. Through special attention to his uniquely elegant style, this study demonstrates how Bronk has brought together earlier American poetics and philosophy with modern and postmodern notions of being, emptiness, and nothingness. This book features extensive discussions of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611471717
SKU
V9781611471717
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Ref
99-15
About Burt Kimmelman
Burt Kimmelman is an assistant professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in English literature from the City University of New York in 1991. He has published numerous articles and reviews on both modern and postmodern poetry, primarily concentrating on American vese in the Imagist/Objectivist tradition. As well, he has authored articles on ... Read more
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