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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... sure that Fitts's failure to keep on writing poetry after his first slender but impressive volume , Poems , 1929–1936 , was a defeat . It may have been , but it now strikes me that his silence was his business and that my fears about my ...
... sure that Fitts's failure to keep on writing poetry after his first slender but impressive volume , Poems , 1929–1936 , was a defeat . It may have been , but it now strikes me that his silence was his business and that my fears about my ...
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... Sure . " And he did , promptly , produce a three - page introduction that was neither assertive nor preening , that called attention in deft and shrewd ways to Adrien's strengths of talent and vision , and that alluded to Adrien's ...
... Sure . " And he did , promptly , produce a three - page introduction that was neither assertive nor preening , that called attention in deft and shrewd ways to Adrien's strengths of talent and vision , and that alluded to Adrien's ...
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... Sure , why not ? I was delighted . But also a little afraid of it . I'd never done this . And I felt a little like an impostor . I'd been writing , at least in part , so as not to be a Newsweek guy who used to write but a writer who ...
... Sure , why not ? I was delighted . But also a little afraid of it . I'd never done this . And I felt a little like an impostor . I'd been writing , at least in part , so as not to be a Newsweek guy who used to write but a writer who ...
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