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Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts.Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernised and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on.Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American literature or modern poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.

Enthusiasm in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literature: history & criticism --- American literature. --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Ezra Pound. --- Frank O'Hara. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Immanuel Kant. --- James Schuyle. --- Marianne Moore. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Socrates. --- William Penn. --- cultural activism. --- enthusiasm. --- nearer testament. --- polemic. --- transmission of literature. --- unbridled self. --- Enthusiasm in literature

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Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his letters, written between 1945 and 2005, document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers, and represent a critical archive of the development of contemporary American poetry, as well as the changing nature of letter-writing and communication in the digital era.

POETRY / General. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Poets, American --- Creeley, Robert, --- Creeley, Robert, -- 1926-2005 -- Correspondence. --- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. --- allen ginsburg. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- celebrated poets. --- charles olson. --- contemporary american poetry. --- correspondence. --- denise levertov. --- ed dorn. --- ezra pound. --- great writers. --- jack kerouac. --- letter collection. --- letter writing. --- literary artistry. --- literary letters. --- mentees. --- mentors. --- poems. --- robert duncan. --- stylist. --- writing.

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This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work in the 1970's. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work-at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan's quest toward a new poetics-is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

Poetry, Modern --- Modern poetry --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Poetry [Modern ] --- 20th century --- 20th century. --- art and literature. --- collected writings. --- dh lawrence. --- discussion books. --- edith sitwell. --- ezra pound. --- famous poets. --- hd. --- lit scholars. --- lit studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary figures. --- literary movements. --- literary theory. --- literary. --- modern literature. --- modern poetics. --- modern poetry. --- modernist poets. --- nonfiction. --- postwar period. --- reference guide. --- retrospective. --- robert duncan. --- roots of modernism. --- william carlos williams. --- writers.

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Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.

Poetics --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- English language --- English poetry --- History --- Versification. --- History and criticism. --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Prosody --- Arthur Brock. --- Craiglockhart War Hospital. --- English education. --- English language. --- English literature. --- English meter. --- English poet. --- English poetry. --- English prosody. --- English soldiers. --- Ezra Pound. --- George Saintsbury. --- Gerard Manley Hopkins. --- Henry Newbold. --- Matthew Arnold. --- Milton's Prosody. --- Robert Bridges. --- Society for Pure English. --- Victorian England. --- Victorian meter. --- Victorian tradition. --- W. H. R. Rivers. --- grammatical history. --- literary movements. --- metrical communities. --- metrical culture. --- metrical history. --- metrical mastery. --- metrical poetry. --- national identity. --- patriotic pedagogy. --- poems. --- poetic form. --- poetic meter. --- poetry writing. --- poetry. --- poets. --- prose. --- prosody. --- state-funded education. --- Germanic languages

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Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism through the work of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. Huang relates Imagism to earlier linguistic ethnographies of Asia and to racist representations of Asians in American pop culture, such as the book and movie character Charlie Chan, then shows that Asian American writers subject both literary Orientalism and racial stereotyping to double ventriloquism and countermockery. Going on to offer a provocative critique of some textually and culturally homogenizing tendencies exemplified in Maxine Hong Kingston's work and its reception, Huang ends with a study of American translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, which he views as new ethnographies that maintain linguistic and cultural boundaries.

Intertextuality. --- Ethnology in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Chinese Americans in literature. --- Chinese Americans in mass media. --- Chinese Americans --- American literature --- Chinese literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Mass media --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Intellectual life. --- Chinese influences. --- Appreciation --- History and criticism. --- Chinese American authors --- Chinese Americans in literature --- Chinese Americans in mass media --- Ethnology in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Intertextuality --- Chinese American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Chinese influences --- Intellectual life --- amy lowell. --- appropriation. --- asia. --- chinese poetry. --- critique. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- disappropriation. --- displacement. --- ethnographer. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- ezra pound. --- imagism. --- imagist poets. --- linguistic ethnography. --- linguistic theory. --- linguistics. --- race issues. --- race. --- racial stereotypes. --- racism. --- social history. --- social studies. --- stereotypes. --- transpacific.