Author: Fussell, Edwin
Title: Lucifer in Harness. American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1973). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xv, 182 pp, Some soil to dustwrapper.. Binding edges nicotine-browned, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Meter-Making Argument: Dissonance & Dialectic; The Radical Tradition in American Poetry; The Age of Growing Discomfort & Inadequate Remedy; Emerson & the Meter-Making Argument; Radical Explosions & Conservative Reassertions; The United States as a Poem; The Constituting Metaphor: Whitman & Metaphorical Form; Poe & the Analogue of the Short Story; In Which Power Transacts Itself; The Four Years' War as Pivot; 'The Waste Land' and the 'Cantos'; The Genesis of Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'; William Carlos Williams & Open-Ended Metaphor; What the Thunder Said: Voices & the Primitive Terror; The Early American Poets & Poetic Diction; The Birth of Death in Whitman; From Imagism to 'The Waste Land'; Linguistic Lapses in Crane & Stevens; William Carlos Williams, M.D.; Poe Against the Thin Edge.

Keywords: Literary criticism, American poetry, Poetics, Meter, Metaphor, Poetic Diction, , ,