Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
Sub-Department
College of Arts and Sciences
First Advisor
Patrick Scott
Abstract
This paper seeks to contextualize the work of Wilmer Mills, a late, minor Southeastern American poet, within the complex and frequently misread tradition of New Formalism, as this manifested in the United States shortly after World War II. The analysis places Mills‟s work in conversation with the formalist philosophy of former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, and it suggests that both Mills‟s poetry and his reception amongst fellow academics who adhered to a more progressive philosophy demonstrates the continued relevance of this older, less-often discussed strain of formalism in American poetry. An appendix presents the first checklist of Mills‟s published writings since his initialmajor publication in 1998.
Rights
© 2016, Rachael Acheson
Recommended Citation
Acheson, R.(2016). The Poetry Of Wilmer Mills. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/3876