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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... late friend Paul de Man liked to analogize the solitude of each literary text and each human death , an analogy I once protested . I had sug- gested to him that the more ironic trope would be to analogize each human birth to the coming ...
... late friend Paul de Man liked to analogize the solitude of each literary text and each human death , an analogy I once protested . I had sug- gested to him that the more ironic trope would be to analogize each human birth to the coming ...
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... late . phase — the That last stanza would be tough to get away with , even with a guitar , a cowboy hat , and a rhythm section behind you . But the voice that strikes us here as almost absurd seems on other occasions to have been ...
... late . phase — the That last stanza would be tough to get away with , even with a guitar , a cowboy hat , and a rhythm section behind you . But the voice that strikes us here as almost absurd seems on other occasions to have been ...
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... late , long , very impressive poem , McAfee writes : The woman sprawled On her back porch late in the 154 RE VERSE.
... late , long , very impressive poem , McAfee writes : The woman sprawled On her back porch late in the 154 RE VERSE.
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