Clipping Easter’s Wing: Lorine Niedecker and the Metaphysical Lyric

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MODERN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1086/726779
John Kuhn
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This article examines Lorine Niedecker’s poetry and correspondence, demonstrating that she read widely in seventeenth-century poetry and frequently borrowed lines and formal strategies from early modern poets in her own verse. However, Niedecker’s relationship to this body of work was complex and sometimes tense, and this essay argues that even as her work quoted and riffed on “metaphysical” poetry, it refashioned these lyric fragments to materialist philosophical ends, in a distinctly vernacular or “conversational” style. The essay demonstrates this through close readings of Niedecker’s “And at the blue ice superior spot,” “Far reach,” “In Europe they grow a new bean,” “Paean to Place,” and “Easter,” in relationship to lyrics by Herrick, Marvell, Shakespeare, and Herbert. In narrating this history, the essay hopes not just to enrich and expand our sense of the range of sources and influences Niedecker drew on, but also to help us understand more fully the afterlives of early modern lyric, the interest it held for members of the American modernist avant garde, and the links between the genre’s afterlife and particular modernist formal concerns and philosophical positions.
剪复活节的翅膀:洛琳·尼德克和形而上学的抒情
本文考察了洛琳·尼德克的诗歌和信件,表明她广泛阅读了17世纪的诗歌,并经常在自己的诗歌中借用早期现代诗人的诗句和正式策略。然而,尼德克与这些作品的关系是复杂的,有时甚至是紧张的,这篇文章认为,即使她的作品引用并即兴引用了“形而上学”诗歌,它也以一种明显的白话或“对话”风格,将这些抒情片段重新塑造成唯物主义哲学的目的。这篇文章通过仔细阅读尼德克的《在蓝冰优越的地方》、《遥远的地方》、《在欧洲,他们长出了一颗新豆子》、《对地方的赞歌》和《复活节》来论证这一点,并与赫里克、马维尔、莎士比亚和赫伯特的歌词联系起来。在叙述这段历史时,这篇文章不仅希望丰富和扩展我们对尼德克尔所借鉴的来源和影响的范围的认识,而且希望帮助我们更全面地理解早期现代抒情的来生,它对美国现代主义先锋派成员的兴趣,以及这种类型的来生与特定的现代主义形式关注和哲学立场之间的联系。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1903, Modern Philology sets the standard for literary scholarship, history, and criticism. In addition to innovative and scholarly articles (in English) on literature in all modern world languages, MP also publishes insightful book reviews of recent books as well as review articles and research on archival documents. Editor Richard Strier is happy to announce that we now welcome contributions on literature in non-European languages and contributions that productively compare texts or traditions from European and non-European literatures. In general, we expect contributions to be written in (or translated into) English, and we expect quotations from non-English languages to be translated into English as well as reproduced in the original.
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