Changing subjects [electronic resource] : digressions in modern American poetry

Title	Changing subjects [electronic resource] : digressions in modern American poetry
Author	Srikanth Reddy
Imprint	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791026.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource

SUMMARY

'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Moore Marianne 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation Hejinian Lyn -- Criticism and interpretation Ashbery John 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation Whitman Walt 1819-1892 -- Influence Digression (Rhetoric) in literature Poetics