A Coherent Splendor (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Gelpi
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Modernism, Poetics, Literary criticism
One of the distinguishing strengths of great poetry is the singular voice of the individual poet. This daunting originality, however, often carries with it a sustaining conviction that only that poet's approach to his work represents a valid vision of artistic excellence. To be sure, the poet frequently needs reassurance that his strategies for production are successful, yet when this understandably self-protective stance is combined with a critic's instinctive tendency to establish patterns of consequence in any cultural era, a superficial depiction of literary history begins to...
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