Re verse : essays on poetry and poets
"David R. Slavitt does not believe in literary criticism so much as in "remarks," and in this witty and unusual work, he remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American writer in our time. Combining personal reminiscence with deft literary analysis, incisive biographical sketches, and, sometimes, literary gossip, the essays in Re Verse give new perspectives on the famous, including Harold Bloom, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Frost, and Stephen Spender, and recover the charms of the nearly forgotten, such as Dudley Fitts, Winfield Townley Scott, Merrill Moore, and John Hall Wheelock."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., ©2005
Aufsatzsammlung
215 pages ; 24 cm
9780810120846, 0810120844
60373360
A master's essay: Dudley Fitts
Dr. Moore
Winfield Townley Scott
"An anatomy of the world: the first anniversary" by John Donne
Shine in the dreadfull dark: the Sidnean Psalms
Harold Bloom and the decline of civility
Robert Penn Warren
Poetic justice
John Hall Wheelock
Adrien Stoutenburg
Ole Fred
Thomas McAfee
Richaleh: Richard Elman
So there were these two Jews: the poetry of Irving Feldman
The poetry of grief
Includes index