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...Alan Williamson, one of a group of younger academic poets who were profoundly influenced by Lowell, is especially familiar with the phrase and its accompanying problems. In a new book, Introspection and Contemporary Poetry, Williamson defends self-revelation, distinguishing several types of introspective poetry, and suggests new criteria by which to judge contemporary poetry. He also substitutes for "confessional poetry" the phrase "personal poetry" as a more general--and less loaded--term...
...Williamson immediately discards the notion that the self is not a valid subject for poetry. Perhaps too immediately, because that argument has often been used as a basis for pot-shots at poets of all types. But Williamson sees no need to go on the defensive, and the assumption that underlies his refusal "to apologize for regarding the self as one of the great human and poetic subjects," is a correct one. As Williamson points out, such poetry is less susceptible to vague abstraction since it less often presumes to make universal generalizations. He does not need to add that...
Critics often avoid examining the origins of contemporary poets' preoccupation with the self. Williamson writes...
...Bill Williamson (C) d. Dave Clark...
...Williamson-Ratner (C) d. Scott-Laddin...