Author: Bloom, Harold
Title: Figures of Capable Imagination
Description: New York, Seabury Press, (1976). orig.cloth. 21x14cm, xiv,273 pp, In a rubbed and torn dustwrapper.. Some rubbing. A mark to side page-edge. Good. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: 'Coleridge': The Anxiety of Influence; 'Walter Pater': The Intoxication of Belatedness; 'Emerson' : The Self-Reliance of American Romanticism; 'The Native Strain': American Orphism; 'Death and the Native Strain in American Poetry'; 'Wallace Stevens': The Poems of Our Climate; ' The New Transcendentalism': The Visionary Strain in Merwin, Ashbery, and Ammons; 'Dark and Radiant Peripheries': Mark Strand and A.R. Ammons; 'John Ashbery': The Charity of the Hard Moments; A.R. Ammons': The Breaking of the Vessels; 'Geoffrey Hill': The Survival of Strong Poetry; 'The Sorrows of American-Jewish Poetry'; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Dream': Hollander's 'The Head of the Bed'.

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