Transcendental Criticism
David Trotter, 3 March 1988
The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections
by Richard Poirier.
Faber, 256 pp., £14.95, March 1988,0 571 15013 6 Show More
by Richard Poirier.
Faber, 256 pp., £14.95, March 1988,
“... Sense of Henry James (1960) through A World Elsewhere (1966) and The Performing Self (1971) to Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977), Poirier has pursued a consistent and inventive enquiry into literary language, and into the politics of literary language. ‘When a writer is most strongly engaged by what he is doing, as if struggling for his ... ”