Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and PoetsNorthwestern University Press, 4.11.2005 - 224 sivua David R. Slavitt will tell you that he does not believe in literary criticism so much as in "remarks," which are more portable and, often, more enlightening. In this witty and unusual work, he remarks upon the life of a poet in the second half of the twentieth century, how it was--and how it is--to be an American writer. Combining personal reminiscence with deft literary analysis, incisive biographical sketches, and, sometimes, literary gossip, these essays give new perspectives on the famous--such as Harold Bloom, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Frost, and Stephen Spender--and recover the charms of the near-forgotten--such as Dudley Fitts, Winfield Townley Scott, Merrill Moore and John Hall Wheelock. Slavitt writes with self-deprecating humor of his own literary education, and uses his impressive experience and erudition to illuminate the whims of poetic influence, passion, and reputation. With a refreshing honesty and considerable poise, he gives readers an enlightening view of the vast and ever-changing literary universe. |
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... graduate class with Marjorie Hope Nicolson , who was the depart- ment chairwoman and an eminent academic . I was at Columbia more or less by accident . I'd married in August 1956 and had gone off to spend a year in Florence , where I'd ...
... graduate class with Marjorie Hope Nicolson , who was the depart- ment chairwoman and an eminent academic . I was at Columbia more or less by accident . I'd married in August 1956 and had gone off to spend a year in Florence , where I'd ...
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... graduate at the end of their junior year , and for these there were other tempta- tions . They could , for instance , devote that fourth year to graduate study and earn an MA along with the BA in their four years — an at- tractive ...
... graduate at the end of their junior year , and for these there were other tempta- tions . They could , for instance , devote that fourth year to graduate study and earn an MA along with the BA in their four years — an at- tractive ...
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... graduate assistant who'd been deputized to act as his host . During dessert , the graduate assistant is said to have apologized profusely and to have explained that he was doing his dissertation on Camus— who was in New York and had ...
... graduate assistant who'd been deputized to act as his host . During dessert , the graduate assistant is said to have apologized profusely and to have explained that he was doing his dissertation on Camus— who was in New York and had ...
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