Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry : against vocation /
This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspect...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspector, and Hart Crane the copywriter. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192573292 0192573292 9780191878237 0191878235 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |