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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... spirit When we become the enfolders of these orbs , and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them , shall we be fill'd and satisfied then ? And my spirit said No , we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond . ( 83-84 ) ...
... spirit on the poet's part . This truism of American poetics was one which Whitman among a hun- dred others gave voice to in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass and poems such as " By Blue Ontario's Shore " : " The largeness of nature or ...
... spirit of the sublime - American or otherwise - can only exist for Stevens through countermovements of the spirit which negate ( " decreate " ) false or prior notions of the sublime , even if they are images from his own earlier poems ...
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