Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy

In 1947, Robert Duncan wrote to William Carlos Williams with great eagerness, enthusing about his desire, aided by his reading of Williams’s poetry, to “bring into active concern this whole question of the new vernacular.” This paper asks what Duncan means by a “new vernacular.” In contrast to natur...

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Main Author: J. Peter Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2020-12-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/10342