... American women’s subjectivity until a later generation was able to take it up again. On the other hand, resourceful poets like Johnson (in her parent-to-son poems), Esther Popel (in her lynching poems), and Alice Dunbar Nelson (in “I Sit and Sew,” for example) were able to limn...

... as candidates for examination through the “still life” critical lens, but this reservation is based, I think, on a misunderstanding of Objectivist conceptions of the poem.) Costello’s approach could potentially include so many diverse poems by Stevens, Williams, and Bishop that the principle...

... instead links Crusoe’s remark in “Crusoe in England” about his homemade flute (“I think it had the weirdest scale on earth”) and James Merrill’s remark it prompted about Bishop’s fondness for “juggling relative sizes” with David Kalstone’s observation that Bishop’s poems reflect “an effort...

... saw in Whitman “the disappointment at unfulfilled democratic visions mixed with an optimism for the coming triumph of true democracy” and in 1954 wrote a tribute poem, “To Whitman,” which Lin translates. Stefan Pajović (“Ivo Andrić’s Response to Walt Whitman,” WWQR 33: 51–60) offers...

... on how he was influenced by and influenced international writers and thinkers, his attitudes toward the American South, and the unparalleled importance of national violence to his work. Scholarship on Dickinson emphasizes the materiality of her work, the role of philosophy in her poems...

..., their book looks like a volume of poems. It has been a quiet year for women poets, perhaps because 2002 and 2003 saw remarkable contributions of a new edition of Marianne Moore’s Collected Poems and an outpouring of critical work on H.D. Neither of these poets is given particular...

...Jeff Westover © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s Jeff Westover i  General In Lyric Encounters Daniel Morris investigates the dialogues between speakers and other characters within poems and between poems and other cultural texts. The book includes...

...) satisfaction with the poem as an object achieving perfect rest. As Oppen matures, he comes to see that American Literary Scholarship (2009) doi 10.1215/00659142-1155211 © 2011 by Duke University Press 372 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s the complications and paradoxes...

... familiar but have never really gotten into becomes pleasurably accessible to me thanks to secondary reading I do in the line of duty. This year it was Jean Valentine, the subject of a Field symposium featuring nine poets writing on poems that particularly appeal to them. Then there are those...

... the era of the New Critics appear in their role as poets: Robert Penn Warren in a study of his romanticism and Yvor Winters in a new book of selected poems. Scholars show their continuing interest in Claude McKay, Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, W. H. Auden, and Hart Crane in multiple...

... Poems, Prose, and Let- ters, and, after Robert Lowell receives separate attention, another splen- did edition, Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Bishop also figures as one poet among others in books by Bethany Hicok, Bonnie Costello, and Marit J...

... of dialect—if any— constitutes the truly African American voice? How do poets in the 1930s respond to the demand to be authentically responsive to political and economic crises? Does sound or print represent the most genuine form of a poem? Must a poet be morally inspired to write with maximum...

... and A Boston Ballad, among other poems, proposing that representations of African Ameri- cans as figures of non-citizenship underwrite and further extend the political aesthetics of Whitman s project. Rachel Rubinstein s Native American and Immigrant Cultures ( pp. 306 15) considers how the entanglement...

..., and a volume of watercolor drawings is now part of her oeuvre. A new essay collection, Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century, assesses the editions’ impact on our sense of Bishop’s poetic achievement, which now encompasses twice as many poems as in the Complete Poems (1979). It has also been a good...

... in a generally unpolitical life, Bishop neverthe- less wrote several poems which critics now view as ‘‘progressive in inten- tion and implication particularly insofar as they focus on the power and legitimacy of same-sex desire. Demonstrating how ‘‘View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress...

... Moore and Ste- vens also addressed scientific ideas in their poems. Middleton focuses on Olson and Rukeyser because these poets sought a cultural prestige and epistemic authority for poetry, conceiving it as a legitimate “mode of inquiry.” They wanted poetry to have a scientific outlook, an idea...

... the critics of such identifications or shown some awareness of the criticism they might o√er here, but he does not. The problems of language for the wanderer who returns may be found in Je√erson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, Segregation, and the late poems. The revisionary narrative that links poetry...

... at best. Then there is the problem of what counts as journalism. We get some stories and poems, for example, that perhaps belong in a separate volume, though to omit them would create an impoverished view of the scope of Whitman’s work as a journalist. Bergman and his colleagues intended...

... American Literary Scholarship (2010) doi 10.1215/00659142-1546856 © 2012 by Duke University Press 76 Whitman and Dickinson wide general interest are Helen Vendler’s Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries and Lyndall Gordon’s Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily...

... sincerity as a rhetorical practice conditioned by intricate relations of gender, commerce, and cultural fictions. In One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America Dan Chiasson also examines how poets write autobiographically and construct personhood in a culture where...