Title

The deep image: Radical subjectivity in the poetry of Robert Bly, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, and W. S. Merwin

Author

David Lindsey Elliott, Syracuse University

Date of Award

1978

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

English

Advisor(s)

Walter Sutton

Keywords

American literature, poets, poems as expression of personality

Subject Categories

Rhetoric and Composition

Abstract

One of the dominant trends in American poetry of the past twenty years has been a turn away from the conception of poetry as an impersonal and objective mode of expression, which inspired so many poets of the modernist revolution, and a movement towards an emphasis on the subjective.

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Recommended Citation

Elliott, David Lindsey, "The deep image: Radical subjectivity in the poetry of Robert Bly, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, and W. S. Merwin" (1978). English - Dissertations. 37.
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