Product Description: The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents an illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet