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"From Outlaw to Classic" presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon. Students, scholars, critics, and poets will welcome this enlightening and impressively documented book.

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Golding's is the best study of canon formation available; it is rare because it focuses on American poetry. Its only rival is Cary Nelson's Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 (CH, Jun'90), which is concerned with what has been left out of the canon. Golding looks at who decided what should be in the canon and how the decisions were made and implemented. She looks at both "radical" critics' tendency to reread canonical texts and canonical scholars' preference for treating fiction. Especially valuable is the detailed and brilliant history of American poetry anthologies, through which canon formation can be followed in detail. Golding offers good treatments of poets' roles in establishing canonical status for older poets; the New Critics' role in setting poetry's place in the academy; the role of little magazines in creating canon; and the recent role of "language writing" in resisting the academy's conformist power over poetry writing (and, subsequently, language poets' efforts to wield that degree of power themselves). There are 38 pages of excellent and useful notes. All libraries should own this book. Q. Grigg; Hamline University