10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYPHONIC PROSE»
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1
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
The last section of the book offers a sample of "polyphonic prose," an invention
Lowell was led to by the efforts of the French poet Paul Fort to break up the
French alexandrine. Into polyphonic prose Lowell incorporates some imagist
tenets, ...
Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw, Adrienne Munich, 2002
2
Amy Lowell, American Modern
13 Poetry, argues Pound, must be read as if to imaginary music and not as
oratory, a possible retort to Lowell's claim in the preface to Can Grande s Castle
that polyphonic prose must resemble oratorical prose. However, only a few years
...
Adrienne Munich, Melissa Bradshaw, 2004
3
Embracing the East : White Women and American Orientalism: ...
Part One stresses the contrast between the two worlds depicted by alternating
between "polyphonic prose" to represent the United States and "free verse" for
scenes in Japan. This juxtaposition of form seems to reflect, at first glance, the ...
Mari Yoshihara Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Hawaii, 2002
4
Artistic Outlaws: The Modernist Poetics of Edith Sitwell, ...
This passage is part of Lowell's experiments in the already mentioned polyphonic
prose. Lowell insists upon the fact that polyphonic prose is not prose but poetry
typographically arranged as prose, but this kind of poetry seems particularly ...
5
Imagism & the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry
Vers libre is the predominant form, though a number of pieces are in "polyphonic
prose." Curiously enough, it was Fletcher who invented this term to describe
some poetic experiments of Amy Lowell, which had been inspired by her reading
of ...
6
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
No study of Mr. Fletcher's work would be complete without a consideration of his "
polyphonic prose." "Polyphonic prose" is not a prose form, although, being
printed as prose, many people have found it difficult to understand this. It is
printed in ...
7
Fierce Solitude: a Life of J.g. Fletcher (c)
Back at Lowell's side two months later, Fletcher dubbed her creation "polyphonic
prose" and congratulated her for going well beyond Fort's modest typographical
curiosity. Of course, the Symbolist experiments with prose poems were more ...
8
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist ...
A work by the well-established Amy Lowell, entitled 'Guns as Keys: and the Great
Gate Swings' intersects Japan, in free verse, with an America expressed mainly
in 'polyphonic prose', a rhythmic prose form that Lowell claimed to have ...
Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, 2012
9
Cohesion and Dissent in America
All of the poems in the volume in which this poem appears, Can Grande's Castle
(1921), are written in "polyphonic prose," verse resembling prose paragraphs,
with the exception of the parts of "Guns as Keys" representing Japan.
Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana, 1994
10
Selected Essays of Fletcher (c)
One of these he termed "polyphonic prose," and in his autobiography he
describes how he introduced Amy Lowell to the form only to have her appropriate
it as her own and take credit for its invention. However, as evidenced in "Miss
Lowell's ...
John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter
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Book Review: 'Amy Lowell Anew' by Carl Rollyson
... through which few others have worked so assiduously: her "Yankee" dialect poems, her historical narratives, her "polyphonic prose" and her ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 13»
