Abstract
Johnson’s examinations into the “situation of the eye” in A Line of Poetry are just the beginning of his scopic explorations. For all the insights they offer about his “New Transcendentalist” and Orphic visions, these early poems show Johnson tentatively utilizing a collage poetic (indebted to Olson) in the attempt to establish a form capable of enacting the visionary modes and ideas they describe. In other words, and despite the strong presence of Olson, form is not an extension of content in A Line of Poetry. It is not until The Book of the Green Man that form and content become integrated more thoroughly. But in order to understand how Johnson achieves this, it is first necessary to consider the role Pound plays in the direction Johnson’s collage poetics take.KeywordsCollage OrganizationInterpretive StrategyUsual SubjectScopic ExplorationExceptional IndividualThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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