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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... reasonable edition reasonable edition are , of course , quite adequate to ex- plain the references and present the ideas with which Donne is play- ing here , but what they don't explain is that he is playing , that this is a kind of ...
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... reasonable to me , a plausible indication of the pain of the speaker and his distraction . The poem could quite reasonably have ended here , at the 184th line , but Donne goes on and lets these two lines become a refrain that holds ...
... reasonable to me , a plausible indication of the pain of the speaker and his distraction . The poem could quite reasonably have ended here , at the 184th line , but Donne goes on and lets these two lines become a refrain that holds ...
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... reasonable , because his experience with Methuen had not been good and his prospects with Macmillan were less than bright . That house was a Robert Maxwell operation that in- cluded the New York Daily News and the Berlitz schools , and ...
... reasonable , because his experience with Methuen had not been good and his prospects with Macmillan were less than bright . That house was a Robert Maxwell operation that in- cluded the New York Daily News and the Berlitz schools , and ...
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