‘The Dream of the Unified Field’: Originality, Influence, the Idea of a National Literature and Contemporary American Poetry

This paper collates two critical ideas about American poetry: originality and influence. Under the precept of the former, poets and critics call for – and on occasion celebrate – an originally American, more or less coherent national poetry, while the latter hosts complaints about the “forfeiture of...

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Main Author: Ruediger Heinze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2008-08-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/2482
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