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Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic dualism. In Frost, she explains the theoretical depth of a habitual "middle way." In Bishop's work, she identifies the attempt to turn recurrent mornings into a "ceremony" rather than a sentence, and in Merrill, she shows how cosmic theories rely on daily habits. Phillips ultimately demonstrates that a poetics of everyday time contributes not only to a richer understanding of these four writers but also to descriptions of their era, estimations of their genre, and ongoing reconfigurations of the issues that literature reflects and illuminates.

Poetry --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Herhaling (Retoriek) --- Herhaling in de literatuur --- Repetition (Rhetoric) --- Repetition in literature --- Répétition (Rhétorique) --- Répétition dans la littérature --- American poetry --- Repetition in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Frost, Robert, --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Bishop, Elizabeth, --- Merrill, James, --- Technique. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Frost, Robert Lee --- Technique --- Stevens, Wallace --- Bishop, Elizabeth --- Merrill, James Ingram --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Merrill, Jim, --- Merrill, Jimmy, --- בישופ, אליזבט, --- Frost, Robert Lee, --- פראסט, ראבערט, --- פרוסט, רוברט, --- فروست ، روبرت --- Фрост, Роберт,