The Long Poem in America: Text and Context
FAIN: FS-10750-78
Roy Harvey Pearce
Regents of the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093-0013)
To study the long poem in America in romantic and modern versions. The history of the long poem, its relationship to the total work of its maker and its structure will be studied. The method of study will be to develop a critical mode involving text, context, structure and the poet's concept of the role of poetry in American life.