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Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertakes extensive close readings of Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-71 (1972), James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), and John Ashbery's Flow Chart (1991). Although not primarily an account of a Whitmanian lineage, this book considers Whitman's renegotiation of the dialectic between the public and the private as a context for the project of the homosexual epic, arguing for the existence of a genealogy of epic poems that rethink the relationship between these two spheres. If, as Bakhtin suggests, the job of epic is to "accomplish the task of cultural, national, and political centralization of the verbal-ideological world," the idea of the "homosexual epic" fundamentally problematizes the traditional aims of the genre

Homosexuality in literature. --- Epic poetry, American --- American poetry --- History and criticism. --- American epic poetry --- Homosexuality and literature

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'Epic Negation' examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's 'poem including history' to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Compelled to register the force of a totality it cannot represent, this negated epic reorients the function of poetic language and reference, remaking the poem, and late modernism generally, as a critical instrument of dialectical reason.

American poetry --- English poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poetry --- Epic poetry, American --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Explication. --- History and criticism. --- American epic poetry --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature)

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Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Epic poetry, American -- History and criticism. --- Olson, Charles, 1910-1970. Maximus poems. --- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos. --- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Paterson. --- American poetry --- Epic poetry, American --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American epic poetry --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Pound, Ezra, --- Williams, William Carlos, --- Olson, Charles,

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Stevens, Wallace, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- 820 "19" STEVENS, WALLACE --- Epic poetry, American --- -Literary form --- -Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- American epic poetry --- American poetry --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--STEVENS, WALLACE --- History and criticism --- History --- -Stevens, Wallace --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--STEVENS, WALLACE --- 820 "19" STEVENS, WALLACE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--STEVENS, WALLACE --- Critique et interprétation --- Literary form --- Criticism and interpretation.