This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible.
This dissertation examines the relationship that exists between wartime poetry written by soldiers during WWI and that written by both soldiers and civilians in subsequent conflicts including WWII and the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The major figures analyzed in this…
This study is intended to present Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) as a Sufi poet whose quest for truth (haqiqah) or the "first idea" (CP, 381) is in keeping with a problematic line of mystical thinking first initiated by the Greek Neo-Platonists and later developed by such poets of …
Christianity and modernity are usually perceived as polar opposites. This dissertation, using the techniques of rhetorical and historical criticism, questions this account, termed "Neo-Christian" by William Empson, by examining certain twentieth-century American texts. The first…
