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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... published , but long poems are an embarrassment to poetry editors who know their place and understand the constraints of the magazine business . Those few commercial magazines , such as Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker , that publish ...
... published , but long poems are an embarrassment to poetry editors who know their place and understand the constraints of the magazine business . Those few commercial magazines , such as Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker , that publish ...
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... published in 1963 , there is a sample of the kind of thing Donne was talking about , a version published in the Anglo - Genevan Psalter of 1556 by John Hopkins of Psalm 55 : But God shall cast them deep in pit , That thirst for blood ...
... published in 1963 , there is a sample of the kind of thing Donne was talking about , a version published in the Anglo - Genevan Psalter of 1556 by John Hopkins of Psalm 55 : But God shall cast them deep in pit , That thirst for blood ...
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... published his Works and Days and Scribner's brought out my Suits for the Dead in their Poets of Today series . My copy of Works and Days has its dust jacket still intact , and that sports a blurb from John Crowe Ransom : " Irving ...
... published his Works and Days and Scribner's brought out my Suits for the Dead in their Poets of Today series . My copy of Works and Days has its dust jacket still intact , and that sports a blurb from John Crowe Ransom : " Irving ...
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