Modern American Poetry and the Protestant Establishment

摘要: Modern American Poetry and the Protestant Establishment argues that secularization in modern poetry must be understood with reference to establishment. Drawing on interdisciplinary work revising thesis, addressed poetics, Americanist, modernist scholars, dissertation demonstrates tipping point of was not reached at dawn modernism, as most critics have assumed, but rather decades following World War II. From 1890s early 1960s, poets such Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, James Weldon Johnson, Harriet Monroe founding editor important little magazine Poetry: A Magazine Verse identified establishment national interest, while fashioning gestures openness toward its traditional targets discrimination, particularly Roman Catholics, African Americans, Jews. These acknowledged establishment's weakened position face internal division, war, racial strife, economic inequality, mounting calls for cultural pluralism. The extending these drew equally authority religious political literary genres ode, sermon, psalm, masque institutions church, state, school, press. Beginning Monroe's imperialist poem ceremonies Chicago's Fair 1893, concludes Frost's reading Inauguration John F. Kennedy 1961, a watershed moment which scion Puritan-Yankee line blessed election country's first Catholic President behalf. Degree Type Dissertation Name Doctor Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group English First Advisor Bob Perelman Subject Categories Literature | English, North America This is available ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/856 MODERN AMERICAN POETRY AND THE PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT Jonathan Fedors DISSERTATION Presented Faculties University Pennsylvania Partial Fulfillment Requirements 2013 Supervisor ______________________________ Perelman, Professor Chairperson Melissa Sanchez, Associate Committee Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Comparative Max Cavitch, COPYRIGHT Paul licensed under Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License To view copy this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/sample iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS could been written without support large cast characters. Perelman’s solicitude, detailed feedback, skepticism integral development completion. Whatever I taught him about landscape poetry, he has me more academia, left an indelible mark way approach poems. Bernstein Cavitch unflagging advocates project from start, offer them my deepest gratitude. Amy Paeth, Phil Maciak, Katie Price, Julia Bloch, Sarah Dowling, Caroline Henze-Gongola, Alyssa Connell, Marissa Nicosia, Bronwyn Wallace, Alex Devine wonderful interlocutors colleagues well friends. My parents sacrificed make version life mind possible, hope passes good initial return their investment. Lastly, all due gravity – levity would like acknowledge love partner, Claire Bourne, who, manicule-like, never ceases show what important.