Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta James Longenbach
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The Resistance to Poetry
Poetry, argues James Longenbach, is its own best enemy. Examining a wide array of poets, from Callimachus to Louise Gluck, he explains that the resistance to poetry is, quite …
Walt Whitman v.VII
More than 40 years after the inaugural volume's original publication, Ted Genoways brings scholars the latest volume in ""Walt Whitman: The Correspondence"". Among the more than …
How Poems Get Made
Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetition and more. Acclaimed poet and …
Draft of a Letter
From the Second Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes. I said Being mortal, I …
The Lyric Now
For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound’s make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But …
Modern Poetry After Modernism
Robert Lowell and many who followed in his personal, reflective style, such as John Berryman, W.S. Merwin and Adrienne Rich, have been seen as breaking with the influence of T.S. …
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a …
Modern Poetry after Modernism
In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "e;breakthrough"e; narrative, the oft-told …
Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things
Most readers of Wallace Stevens wonder at his `double life'; the poet and the lawyer who worked in the insurance business. But Longenbach argues that Stevens lived no such double …
Stone Cottage
Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats spent the winters of 1913-16 living together in a Cottage in Sussex. During that period, Yeats, with Pound's help, developed his autobiographies and …
Modernist Poetics of History
By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and …