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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... - year - old boy . ( Nabokov detested that novel , too , but for other reasons : he thought it mawkish and sentimental . ) I was dismayed , although not surprised , that Andover was monitoring what books the students 26 RE VERSE.
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... novels . One novel was permissible — Allen Tate had written The Fathers but to go on and have a career as a poet - novelist was eccentric . Robert Graves was doing it in Europe . In America , War- ren was almost unique . And even beyond ...
... novels . One novel was permissible — Allen Tate had written The Fathers but to go on and have a career as a poet - novelist was eccentric . Robert Graves was doing it in Europe . In America , War- ren was almost unique . And even beyond ...
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... novel , Little Lives ( by John Howland Spyker ) . paper- Now there's nothing inherently wrong with the use of pseudo- nyms . They can be ways of distinguishing among one's books . C. Day Lewis and Gore Vidal , when they wrote mysteries ...
... novel , Little Lives ( by John Howland Spyker ) . paper- Now there's nothing inherently wrong with the use of pseudo- nyms . They can be ways of distinguishing among one's books . C. Day Lewis and Gore Vidal , when they wrote mysteries ...
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