Re-reading Poets: The Life of the Author

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171 3 Index Abrams, M. H., 60 absence, 48–49 affective fallacy, 4–5 age: and loss, 47; and the reading/writing of poetry, 44–78, 147; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and, 50 age of Pericles, 105 alcohol, 50 Alvarez, A., The Savage God, 132, 139 American Visionary Art Museum, 42–43 Andrews, Bruce, 92 anti-Communism, 6 Aristotle, 105, 129 art: invitation to create, 42–43; poetry and, 89–90; of self-taught artists, 42–43; traditional fine, 42–43 attending, 100 Auden, W. H., vii, xi Augustine, Saint, 81, 83 author: death of, 5; intentions of, 4; role of, x, xiii, 8. See also poets author-based criticism, 3–4 authority: of poets, 36, 94–95, 131; of readers, 94 Bakhtin, Mikhail, xiv, 8, 84, 93–98, 139; “Concluding Remarks,” 97; The Dialogic Imagination, 97; “Discourse in the Novel,” 94; “Forms of Time and Chronotopes in the Novel,” 97 Baraka, Amiri, 115 Barthes, Roland, “The Death of the Author,” 5 Beardsley, Monroe, 4 Beat generation, 41, 132 Beauvoir, Simone de, 109 Bernstein, Charles, 41, 92 Berrigan, Daniel, 115 Berryman, John, 50, 133–34; Dream Songs, 7, 74, 133, 149–50; “Eleven Addresses to the Lord,” 150; “For Daphne: On the Mornings After,” 136–39; Love and Fame, 150; “Winter Solstice 1999,” 141–43 Best Sellers (journal), 135, 150 Black Mountain school of poetry, 90 Blake, William, 140, 146 Bly, Robert, 65, 67–69; Iron John, 67 body: soul in relation to, 70–73; women poets and, 67 Book-of-the-Month Club, 133 books, nature vs., 26–32, 40 Bradley, F. H., 39 breath, 91–92 Brooks, Cleanth, 7 Burke, Kenneth, 80 Burns, Robert, 81–82 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 130, 147 Camus, Albert, 109 canon, formation of, 86. See also great books; tradition kameen pages3.indd 171 9/1/10 3:32 PM 172 / Index Carlyle, Thomas, 16, 117 Catholicism, 54–55, 59, 63–64, 132 childhood, 17–19 Christianity, 51. See also Catholicism chronotopes, 96–98, 101 Civil War, 78 clichés, 51–52, 56 close reading, 2, 84 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ix, xiii, 60, 152; Biographia Literaria, 13–14, 115, 127; “Frost at Midnight,” 146–47; on genius, 127–28; “Kubla Khan,” 127–28; “On Method,” 87; as poet, 118–19, 127–28; on poetic method, 90–91; on poetry, 13–14; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” xiii, 14–16, 50–57, 82, 112, 124; and time, 81; Wordsworth and, 47, 118 commemoration: as attitude toward art, 42; as attitude toward poetry, vii, viii, 28; damaging effects of, 102–3; teaching as, 103 concrete poetry, 41, 92, 132 confessionalism, 50, 65, 67–68, 132 Cronkite, Walter, 133 conservatism, 6 conversation: Burke’s unending, 80; living, 8–9, 95–96; reading poetry as, 16, 94–95, 131 Crane, Stephen, 86, 121–24 Creeley, Robert, 91, 92 criticism: author-based, 3–4; historical context for, 1–2, 7; reader-based, x, 4; text-based, 4–6 cynicism, 122–23, 145 dark outlook on life, 52, 59, 69, 122, 148, 151 Davidson, Donald, 6 death: children’s relationship to, 17–18; confessionalism and, 50, 67; imagism and, 69; Whitman and, 78; Wordsworth and, 17, 21, 22, 25 deep image, 67 Derrida, Jacques, 106 destination, journey vs., 13–15 Dial (magazine), 40 dialogue: novels and, 94; reading/writing poetry and, 95–96 Dickinson, Emily, 122, 144 Doolittle, Hilda (pseudonym: H. D.), 67, 88 double-voicedness, 94–95 drug-inspired poetry, 132 Duende, 69 Duncan, Robert, 91 ecstasy, 30, 78, 112, 148 egoism, 17–18 Eigner, Larry, 93 Einstein, Albert, 81, 93, 96; “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” 87 Eliot, T. S.: as critic, x, 33; and emotion, 33, 39; and escape from personality, 33, 73, 104, 105; “The Hollow Men,” 34–35; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 71; as poet, xiii, 33–36, 37, 88; poet-reader relationship in, 36; The Sacred Wood, 33; on subject-object relationship, 37–39; and tradition, xiv, 101, 103–4; “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 39, 101, 103; “The Waste Land,” 33–36, 37; Williams compared to, 37–40 eloquence, 17 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, viii, 32, 119; “The American Scholar,” 27–29; on nature vs. books, 27–29 emotion: Eliot and, 33, 39; Wordsworth and, 39, 49 Empedocles, 105, 107, 143, 144 Empson, William, 6 epic, the, 34, 73–75 essentialism, 60 Evening News (television show), 133 everyday life: art of self-taught artists and, 42–43; poetry and, viii, xii, 12–13 existentialist philosophy, 109 far...