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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... least minimally like the poem , or that I am any the less grateful to him . Donaldson's biography of Scott ought to be assigned reading in those creative - writing programs , a way of warning the would - be poets and writers what lies ...
... least minimally like the poem , or that I am any the less grateful to him . Donaldson's biography of Scott ought to be assigned reading in those creative - writing programs , a way of warning the would - be poets and writers what lies ...
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... least the name of John Ashbery , with whom he shared the prize that year , than know Chappell's . Indeed , the general impres- sion , I fear , is that Ashbery won the prize and Fred was a kind of an afterthought , when , in fact , the ...
... least the name of John Ashbery , with whom he shared the prize that year , than know Chappell's . Indeed , the general impres- sion , I fear , is that Ashbery won the prize and Fred was a kind of an afterthought , when , in fact , the ...
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... least not derivative in quite the same way . What troubles me is that it is redolent of a kind of 1930s artiness . It certainly doesn't have the astonishing brashness of the first section of the poem that asserts life ( or at least ...
... least not derivative in quite the same way . What troubles me is that it is redolent of a kind of 1930s artiness . It certainly doesn't have the astonishing brashness of the first section of the poem that asserts life ( or at least ...
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