The Architecture of Address
The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry| By: | Jake Adam York |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415970587 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135877675 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.