Is There Continuity in American Poems?

There's a biblical precedent for that. We want to pin words down and words don't like to be pinned down. They're more alive than we are in many ways. The fact that it's a Judeo-Christian tradition is no joke. I had to take that seriously. And part of that comes from people I was reading at the time in the late 70s, Bloom and Hollander,. Geoffrey Hartman and all these other people.