Annotation Each volume provides substantive critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).
The text of two lectures delivered at Harvard University during the winter of 1932-1933
A timely and informative collection, A Poetry Criticism Reader brings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the best and most illuminating poetry criticism from the past decade.In his introduction to the book, editor ...
In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past.
Consequently , Heaney's metaphors are not mere extensions of the almost unremarked tropes in O'Keeffe of clarity , warmth , and cold . Instead , he imports new tropes of breaking and unmaking , both of which take their tenor from the ...
We are dealing here with a phenomenon that can be observed in all kinds of poetic traditions : ' Closure is also secured simply through the allusion to death , which is one of the most common and effective non - structural devices ” ...
The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics...
Crane , some of his critics have argued and some still do , was not discriminating enough . He did not distinguish clearly poetry from life , epic from lyric , tradition from modernity , science from myth , history from fiction , reason ...
... especially the wonderful e section, “New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place. ... lives' common conditioning” ( Ferment 100). t 8 See Ammons's “Jewett's Witches” in Critical Essays on Sarah Orne Jewett (ed.