Erotic Reckonings explores the problem of tradition and authority in the lives and work of three pairs of twentieth-century American poets - Ezra Pound and H.D., Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis, and Louise Bogan and Theodore Roethke. Drawing on classical and feminist psychoanalytic theory, Thomas Simmons argues that mentor-apprentice relationships are inescapably erotic, though not necessarily sexual. Pound and Winters manifest profound conflicts between allegiance to a tradition of knowledge and allegiance to apprentices; both tend to master the apprentice, to bind her to a body of knowledge. In contrast, Bogan and Roethke display a different approach: wary of the value of a tradition of knowledge, Bogan insists that Roethke represent himself as a person of authority. She plays for him a role of sustained reciprocity, rather than of domination.
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When T. S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound in 1922, he added a memorable inscription borrowed from Dante-il miglior fabbro," "the better craftsman." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Ezra Pound, Yvor Winters, Louise Bogan, Janet Lewis, Theodore Roethke, Collected Poems, New Directions, New Mexico, Swallow Press, Alan Swallow, Beinecke Library, Drying Hill, Hart Crane, Stanford University Libraries, Carol Gilligan, University of Washington Libraries, Edmund Wilson, Elizabeth Frank, Forms of Discovery, Scott Momaday, Jessica Benjamin, Richard Wilbur, Ruth Limmer, Special Collections New!
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When T. S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound in 1922, he added a memorable inscription borrowed from Dante-il miglior fabbro," "the better craftsman." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
romantic thralldom, variant principle, rational tradition, sea lily, early poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ezra Pound, Yvor Winters, Louise Bogan, Janet Lewis, Theodore Roethke, Collected Poems, New Directions, New Mexico, Swallow Press, Alan Swallow, Beinecke Library, Drying Hill, Hart Crane, Stanford University Libraries, Carol Gilligan, University of Washington Libraries, Edmund Wilson, Elizabeth Frank, Forms of Discovery, Scott Momaday, Jessica Benjamin, Richard Wilbur, Ruth Limmer, Special Collections New!
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- In Defense Of Reason by Yvor Winters on 9 pages
- The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron by Janet Lewis on 7 pages
- Collected Poems by Lula M. Winters on 7 pages
- Forms of Discovery by Yvor Winters on 7 pages
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