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The Reformation
of the Subject
Cambridge University Press
Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same distrust and
aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of shaping and
thus waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation also
produced the defining monuments of English epic. In an extended
analysis, both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Linda Gregerson
traces the contradictory cultural roots of The Faerie Queene and
Paradise Lost, illuminating the ideological, political, and gender
conflicts that Spenser and Milton confronted as they transformed the
epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political
subject.
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Negative Capability
University of Michigan Press
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In a wide-ranging and fiercely intelligent series of readings, Linda
Gregerson presents an eloquent overview of the contemporary American
lyric. This lyric is distinguished, she argues, not only by its
unprecedented variety and abundance, but by its persistent and supple
engagement with form. In detailed examinations of work by John Ashbery,
Mark Strand, Louis Glück, James Schuyler, Muriel Rukeyser, C. K.
Williams, Rita Dove, Philip Levine, Heather McHugh, William Meredith,
John Hollander, and a host of other recent and contemporary poets,
Gregerson documents the depth and richness of American lyric production
at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a rich
symbiosis of critical and poetic intelligence. It is also a work of
passionate advocacy.
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