The Tenth Muse

The Psyche of the American Poet

• Author(s): Albert Gelpi,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 327
• ISBN_10: 0521424011
  ISBN_13: 9780521424011
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / General ,

Description:... In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets (Rich, Ginsberg, Duncan) as frames for those predecessors. Originally published in 1975 in hardcover only by Harvard University Press