The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the view that Emerson not only overthrew New England religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favour of a secular, Romantic approach.Elisa New is the author of 'The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521430210 and ISBN 0521430216.