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Angus Fletcher
A New Theory of American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Harvard University Press) Angus Fletcher, the literary critic as seer, carefully discerns the difference between American poetry and its more bombastic British forbears. Fletcher demonstrates how, true to the spirit of democracy, Whitman devised an anti-hierarchical style, altering poetry forever.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenA New Theory of American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Harvard University Press) Angus Fletcher, the literary critic as seer, carefully discerns the difference between American poetry and its more bombastic British forbears. Fletcher demonstrates how, true to the spirit of democracy, Whitman devised an anti-hierarchical style, altering poetry forever.