Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

ANN MARIE MIKKELSEN Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University, USA.

Introduction Pastoral Ideology and the Pragmatic Response Tramp Culture and the Cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of Class Mobility 'The Truth About Us': Pastoral, Pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson 'Fat!  Fat!  Fat!  Fat!':  Wallace Stevens's Figurations of Masculinity 'The Mooring of Starting Out': John Ashbery's Pastoral Origins American Pastoral Futures