2. American English as a poetic resource

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-45
Author(s):  
David Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Walt Whitman ◽  
American English ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ◽  
Harryette Mullen ◽  
Cross Fertilization

“American English as a poetic resource” argues that American English is one of the country’s great poetic resources. It is remarkably adaptable, contested, and diverse. When poets explore American English’s poetic usefulness, the diversity of their approaches and interests demonstrates the language’s flexibility. They use American English to critique and celebrate America and its literary traditions and to create a distinctive literature that also draws from traditions outside it. They mark differences as well as affinities. In some cases, the poetry shows an exuberant appreciation of American English’s peculiarities, its quirks and openness to experimentation and cultural cross-fertilization. Discussed poets include Walt Whitman, Harryette Mullen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ezra Pound, and Robert Frost.

Fascist Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Maertz
Keyword(s):  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
American English ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
Vichy France

Fascist modernism is an artistic and literary movement emphasizing extreme nationalism, romantic anti-capitalism, and cultural renewal most closely associated with Fascist Italy, Vichy France, and National Socialist Germany (see Nazi modernism) but also describing the fusion of innovative literary technique and reactionary politics found in the writings of leading American, English, and Irish modernist authors such as T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and W. B. Yeats.

Authors, Speakers, Readers in a Trio of Sea-Pieces in Herman Melville's John Marr and Other Sailors

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Sean Ford
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Public Audience

Much recent interest in Herman Melville's poetry involves reassessing its position both within the Melville canon and within or against various literary traditions. This essay considers the range of stances, speakers, and personae in John Marr and Other Sailors With Some Sea-Pieces (1888) and its resonances of past works as evidence that Melville is more committed to a public audience and less oppositional or adversarial to established traditions than a number of scholars have proposed. A study of topical and rhetorical interdependencies in a sequence of poems in the volume uncovers dynamic affinities, whether by direct influence or otherwise, with William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, and Walt Whitman, participants in Melville's own recurring urge to tell of things that cannot be told. Through a communion of voices, “The Æolian Harp,” “To the Master of the ‘Meteor,’” and “Far Off-Shore” display varying and alternating expressions of this urge as part of a rhetorical project that invites readers to interact and ultimately acquiesce in essential limits of accessing and telling the truth.

scholarly journals North of Boston: Models of Identity, Subjectivity and Place in the Poems of Robert Frost

2008 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Stephen Regan
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
First World War ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
World War ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The First World War ◽  
American Romanticism ◽  
First World

Abstract Although the titles of Robert Frost’s collections of poetry, including North of Boston, appear to ground his work in a precise location and a known community, the poems themselves belie any secure sense of geography and any secure sense of attachment. Many of the poems were, in fact, composed in Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, and they reveal an acute awareness of British, as well as American, literary traditions and ideals. This essay looks at how Frost created the New England of his poems, subtly establishing lines of continuity with British and American Romanticism while simultaneously harbouring profound philosophical doubts about inherited models of poetic subjectivity and imagination. The place of poetry, for Frost, is seen to be a place in which the play of mind is, itself, the most pressing subject matter.

Ezra Pound and Walt Whitman

1955 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Ezra Pound

What Went Wrong between Robert Frost and Ezra Pound

1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 521
Author(s):  
B. J. Sokol
Keyword(s):  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Robert Frost

Garnett, Edward (1868–1937)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peters
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
British Modernism ◽  
Sean O'faolain ◽  
Artistic Merit ◽  
John Galsworthy

Although he wrote little of artistic merit himself, Edward Garnett was very influential on British modernism. Like Ezra Pound, Garnett had an uncanny ear for good literature. As a manuscript reader for publishers, he was instrumental in the discovery or fostering of many important writers during this period, among them Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, W. H. Hudson, Liam O’Flaherty, Sean O’Faolain, Henry Green and T. E. Lawrence.

scholarly journals Entrevista a Gabri Molist

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Eva Van de Wiele
Keyword(s):  
Robert Frost ◽  
Harryette Mullen ◽  
Sergio Ramirez

Gabri Molist nació en Barcelona en 1993. Dibujaba en la clase para no aburrirse, como una especie de terapia energética. Leía Mortadelo y Filemónde pequeño, para después enamorarse de Calvin y Hobbes y el Hellboy de Mike Mignola. Ama dibujar gente extraña y curiosa a la que poneen situaciones absurdas e incómodas mientras reivindica las fronteras de lo que posibilita el medio del cómic. La mayor parte de sus historias surgieronen fanzines o cómics autopublicados (Gazpacho, Way Opposite, I Laugh To See Myself So Beautiful In This Mirror). Adaptó un cuentode Sergio Ramírez, Flores Oscuras, al cómic (con otros autores belgas) para el Instituto Cervantes de Bruselas. No tiene miedo a declamar supropia obra; lo hizo en el MACBA durante el evento en Còmic en Revolta comisariado por Francesc Ruiz. Con Apa Apa publicó Asonancia, unaadaptación de cinco poemas al cómic (entre otros, de Robert Frost, Harryette Mullen y Clark Coolidge). Ha vivido en Gante, y actualmente viveen Bruselas. Su sitio web es www.instagram.com/gabrimolist

Addressing African American English in Early Literacy Assessment and Instruction

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Patton Terry
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
American English ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
African American English ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Early Literacy Assessment

Abstract Determining how best to address young children's African American English use in formal literacy assessment and instruction is a challenge. Evidence is not yet available to discern which theory best accounts for the relation between AAE use and literacy skills or to delineate which dialect-informed educational practices are most effective for children in preschool and the primary grades. Nonetheless, consistent observations of an educationally significant relation between AAE use and various early literacy skills suggest that dialect variation should be considered in assessment and instruction practices involving children who are learning to read and write. The speech-language pathologist can play a critical role in instituting such practices in schools.

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