Identity and Society in American Poetry

abstract aesthetic American Scholar artist belief Cantos Cavell concept concerns connection consciousness Creeley critics cultural defined describes discourse discussed distinction Emerson Emersonian empirical empiricism energy essays exist experience Ezra Pound figure godlike Hugh Selwyn Mauberley human ideal ideas identity ideology images imagination immanence individual knowledge language Levinas Liberalism light literary lyrical Mauberley Maximus meaning mind modern modernist Mussolini mystic myth mythic Nancy nature nominalist object objectivism objectivist Olson paradoxical passage Paterson perception perspective philosophy physical Plotinus poem poet poet’s poetic poetry polis political postmodern Poundian present Projective Verse Propertius psychology reader reality refers relationship represents Robert Creeley role Romantic Romantic poetry Romanticism seeks Self-Reliance sense social society solitude soul speaker speaking spiritual style symbolic T.S. Eliot things thought tradition transcendent transcendental transcendentalist translations true truth vision voice Whitman William Carlos Williams Williams wisdom words Wordsworth writes Zukofsky