The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.
| ISBN: | 9781135877682 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2004 |
| Author: | York, Jake Adam |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Format: | Ebook |