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Lucifer in Harness: American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction
By (Author) Edwin S. Fussell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
811.009
Paperback
200
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
28g
For nearly two hundred years the rebellious American poet has been reluctantly harnessed to the English language and literary tradition. In a triptych of essays, Edwin Fussell attempts "to explore the fundamental dilemma of American poetry as it appears in the three crucial fields of meter, metaphor, and poetic diction, the three crucial fields of