Abstract
The Book of the Green Man was published in 1967 under the auspices of Norton’s then poetry editor, Denise Levertov. Published by Norton in the United States and Longmans Green in the United Kingdom, the book’s trans-Atlantic distribution reflects the Green Man’s own mix of British tradition and American sensibility. Johnson’s book-length poem garnered considerable praise from notable figures including Herbert Read and Harold Bloom.
… he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (N 38)
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Notes
John Ruskin, Selected Writings, ed. Diana Birch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 71.
Geoffrey Grigson, The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook (London: Allison and Busby, 1982), 153.
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Geoffrey Grigson, The Shell Country Alphabet (Frome and London: Michael Joseph, 1966), 9.
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Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971).
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Robert Duncan, The Opening of the Field (New York: New Directions, 1960), 64.
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Hair, R. (2010). Visual Integrity in The Book of the Green Man . In: Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115552_4
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