Course
ENGL-401: Senior Inquiry
Document Type
Student Paper
Streaming Media
Publication Date
Fall 12-6-2024
Disciplines
American Literature | English Language and Literature | Poetry
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
Arthur Davison Ficke and Witter Bynner were American poetry's first Surrealists, preceding Breton and his founding of Surrealism, with the publication of its first manifesto, in France in 1924. Though the creative merits of 1916's "Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments" are many, most scholars and critics regard it as a hoax intended to mock Imagism and the like. But Ficke and Bynner, using the pseudonyms Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan, respectively, blazed trails no poets had priorly dared to venture down.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Blair, Zach. "The Stark Surrealism in Spectra’s Soulfulness" (2024). English: Student Scholarship & Creative Works.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/englstudent/12
Creative Commons License
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Comments
This was written for completion of Dr. Meg Gillette's fall-of-2024 senior-inquiry class.