The tenth muse

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In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets (Rich, Ginsberg, Duncan) as frames for those predecessors.

subjects: American Poets,  American poetry,  History and criticism,  Poetry,  Poets, American,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Poetry,  Psychology,  Psychology in literature,  Self in literature,  Intellectual life,  American poetry, history and criticism,  Poets,  Criticism and interpretation,  Poésie américaine,  Histoire et critique,  Vie intellectuelle,  Literaturpsychologie,  Lyrik,  Psyche,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer