Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: History as Force Field in Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson Chapter 2: From Natural to Social Place in Olson and Creeley Chapter 3: Creeley, Duncan, and the Uses of Abstraction Chapter 4: Poetic Authority and Mass Audience during the Vietnam War in Duncan and Levertov Chapter 5: The Problem of Political Poetry and the Polarization of the Field in Levertov and Dorn Conclusion Index

About the Author

Anne Day Dewey teaches English at Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus.

Reviews

"Beyond Maximus is the most perceptive and informative analysis to date of the poets conventionally grouped under the label "Black Mountain." Virtually every page of the book opens up fresh and exciting ways of looking both at the works of these poets as individuals and at the relationships among the poets. We have here a book that makes a vitally important contribution to the critical study of twentieth-century American poetry." - Burton Hatlen, University of Maine "Dewey's Beyond Maximus is an impressive feat of scholarship, an original, syncretic reading of five poets loosely grouped under the "Black Mountain" heading..." - College Literature