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by Robert Archambeau

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Robert Archambeau examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters on his final generation of graduate students at Stanford in the early 1960s: Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, John Matthias, and John Peck. Archambeau divides the poets into two groups, laureates and heretics. Hass and Pinsky, each of whom served multiple terms as United Sates Poet Laureate, achieved both popular recognition and institutional renown. In contrast, the poetic accomplishments of Matthias, McMichael, and Peck (and to some extent Winters himself), the "heretics," have not resulted in wide readership or institutional canonization.

Archambeau begins with the context of the modernist poetics Winters first espoused and then rejected. The story that follows--of how his five most prominent students accepted, rejected, or transformed Winters's poetics, and how these poets went on to greater or lesser degrees of success in the field of late twentieth-century letters--illuminates the cultural politics of poetry in our own day. The author provides close readings of poems by this diverse group of poets, places their careers and works in the context of their times, and traces the relationship between American literary history and American canons of literary taste from the 1930s to the present day. Laureates and Heretics is an important contribution to American literary history and American poetry.

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  • Title Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry
  • Author Robert Archambeau
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Publication date 2010-03-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780268020361 / 0268020361
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century - History and, Winters, Yvor - Influence
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009053249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.5

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  • Choice, 11/01/2010, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 271

About the author

Robert Archambeau is associate professor of English at Lake Forest College. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Home and Variations.

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