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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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Walt Whitman, Brooklyn property speculator
- Leaves of Grass and real estate
- Whitman and the transformations of labor
- Part II. Herman Melville, deputy customs inspector
- Moby-Dick and the shadows of "The Poet"
- Billy Budd and Melville's retirement
- Part III. Hart Crane, junior copywriter
- Classical modernism and impersonal poetic labor
- Making ends meet
- Coda: why I am not talking about Frank O'Hara.