TY - GEN N2 - This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labour, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman (a real estate dealer), Herman Melville (customs inspector) and Hart Crane (copywriter). AB - This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labour, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman (a real estate dealer), Herman Melville (customs inspector) and Hart Crane (copywriter). T1 - Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry :against vocation / AU - Riley, Peter, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PS321 N1 - This edition also issued in print: 2019. ID - 890988 KW - American poetry KW - American poetry KW - Poetry SN - 9780191878237 TI - Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry :against vocation / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836254.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836254.001.0001 ER -