Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

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    • Michael, John

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Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

John Michael

Fordham University Press, 2018

1st ed

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Includes index

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Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets' work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language's material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.

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Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd Part I: Edgar Allan Poe 1. Poe's Post-Humanism 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss Part II: Walt Whitman 3. Whitman's Poetics: Metonymy and the Crowd 4. Whitman and Democracy: The "Withness of the World," the Reader, and the Fakes of Death Part III: Emily Dickinson 5. Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Lyric Reader 6. Dickinson's Dog and the Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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