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21 19: Contemporary Poets the Nineteenth-Century Archive
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21 19: Contemporary Poets the Nineteenth-Century Archive
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21 19: Contemporary Poets the Nineteenth-Century Archive
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As the twenty-first century unfolds in a United States characterized by deep divisions, diminished democracy, and dramatic transformation of identities, the co-editors of this singular book approached a dozen North American poets, asking them to engage with texts by their predecessors in a manner that avoids both aloofness from the past and too-easy elegy. The resulting essays dwell provocatively on the border between the lyrical and the scholarly, casting fresh critical light on the golden age of American literature and exploring a handful of texts not commonly included in its canon.
A polyvocal collection that reflects the complexity of the cross-temporal encounter it enacts,
offers a re-reading of the “American Renaissance” and new possibilities for imaginative critical practice today.