Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Angus Fletcher defines a poetics for the twenty-first century by means of a very original collection of John Clare, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery as Environmental Poets -- poets, that is, who embrace the horizontal rather than the vertical, the non-teleological rather than the progressive, and the democratic rather than the hierarchical.

• Introduction 1. Clare's Horizon 2. The Argument of Form 3. Description 4. Ashbery's Clare 5. Diurnal Knowledge 6. The Whitman Phrase 7. The Environment-Poem 8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form 9. Middle Voice 10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem 11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity 12. The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way 13. Coherence 14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue Notes Index

Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Angus Fletcher defines a poetics for the twenty-first century by means of a very original collection of John Clare, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery as Environmental Poets -- poets, that is, who embrace the horizontal rather than the vertical, the non-teleological rather than the progressive, and the democratic rather than the hierarchical.

• Introduction 1. Clare's Horizon 2. The Argument of Form 3. Description 4. Ashbery's Clare 5. Diurnal Knowledge 6. The Whitman Phrase 7. The Environment-Poem 8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form 9. Middle Voice 10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem 11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity 12. The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way 13. Coherence 14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue Notes Index

Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Angus Fletcher defines a poetics for the twenty-first century by means of a very original collection of John Clare, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery as Environmental Poets -- poets, that is, who embrace the horizontal rather than the vertical, the non-teleological rather than the progressive, and the democratic rather than the hierarchical.

• Introduction 1. Clare's Horizon 2. The Argument of Form 3. Description 4. Ashbery's Clare 5. Diurnal Knowledge 6. The Whitman Phrase 7. The Environment-Poem 8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form 9. Middle Voice 10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem 11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity 12. The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way 13. Coherence 14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue Notes Index