Volume 52, Number 8 · May 12, 2005
Rx for American Poets
By Charles Simic
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination
by Angus Fletcher
Harvard University Press, 316 pp., $29.95
What an ambitious project for a critic to undertake! It's usually the poets who are in the business of prophecy. Poets have always been introspective about their art and never more so than in these last two centuries when everything from religion, philosophy, morality, to the social order was constantly being questioned. It was not easy for some of them to continue writing the same old verses in the same old way while the world all around them was talking about revolution and freedom.
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