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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Michael, John, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation. Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation. Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation. American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. Lyric poetry > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd
Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity
Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss
Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd
Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death
The poet as lyric reader
Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.