A

Abrams, M. H., The Mirror and the Lamp,7

"Absolute value," in language, 4 , 22 -23, 55

"Absorptiveness" (Bernstein), 241 , 249 -50

"Academic" poetry, 20 -21, 24 , 66 , 71 , 72

Adams, Brooks, 91 , 100

Adams, John, 67 , 93 , 185

Agonism, 9 , 43 , 49 , 63 , 138 -39

Allen, Donald, The New American Poetry,21 , 191

Altieri, Charles, 4 ;

on Duncan, 136 ;

and "ego," 76 ;

and "immanentist poetics," 3 , 31 ;

and Objectivism, 3 , 111 , 136 ;

and Olson, 111 ;

on postmodernism, 27 -28, 76

America, 67 ;

Bloom on, 47 ;

Creeley and, 219 ;

Dorn and, 218 -19, 223 -24;

Duncan and, 180 ;

Levertov and, 203 -4, 205 -6;

Olson and, 94 , 95 , 96 , 101 , 124 , 218 -19, 222 ;

Whitman and, 67 -71, 72 , 124 ;

Williams and, 67 , 71 -73, 94 , 95 , 124

American poetry. See "New American poetry"

American Sublime. See Sublime

Ammons, A. R., 46 , 53

Andrews, Bruce, 239

Antin, David, 27

Anti-Semitism, 5 , 37 -38, 48 , 91

Antithesis, 28 n, 47 , 85 , 88

Anxiety, 65 ;

Bloom and, 43 , 113 ;

Duncan and, 138 -39;

Olson and, 113 , 115 , 118 , 131 , 134

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 41

Aquinas, Thomas, 49

Archaeology, 86 , 87 , 210

Aristotle, Poetics,7

Artisan, vantage point of, 59

Ashbery, John, 46 , 53 , 240 -41, 242 , 249

Auden, W. H., 18 , 24 , 25

Authorship, 12 , 244 -45, 248 .

See also "Donative" authors

"Autoclytic multiplication" (Olson), 15 , 103