American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... William Livingston , and William Cullen Bryant , whose dis- course was no less haunted by the grandeur of nature and country as tropes of sublimity empowering solitary attempts to represent national " elevation " ; ( 3 ) to situate ...
The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Rob Wilson. FIVE William Cullen Bryant Domesticating the Natural Sublime It is not drum - taps For a lost race of giants , But perhaps says something , here In Mr. Bryant's Homiletic woods , Of the brave ...
... Bryant's poetry generally , see Under Open Sky : Poets on William Cullen Bryant , ed . Norbert Krapf ( New York : Fordham Univ . Press , 1986 ) ; Robert A. Ferguson , “ William Cullen Bryant : The Creative Context of the Poet , " New ...
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