Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

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Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

Title remainder

Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

Statement of responsibility

Helen Vendler

Creator

• Vendler, Helen, 1933-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Denkwijze
• Dickinson, Emily
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Critique et interprétation
• English poetry -- History and criticism
• English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
• Gedichten
• Lyrik
• Pays anglophones -- Vie intellectuelle
• Pensée
• Pope, Alexander
• American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Critique et interprétation
• Poésie américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Poésie anglaise -- Histoire et critique
• Thought and thinking
• Whitman, Walt
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Critique et interprétation
• Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Critique et interprétation
• Yeats, William B
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers." "The four poets taken up in this volume - Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats - come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument." "Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style - however ancient the theme - that is powerful and original."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821.009

Index

index present

LC call number

PR502

LC item number

.V465 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography