The work of poetry / John Hollander.

Author/creator Hollander, John
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The work of poetry -- Originality -- A poetry of restitution -- What you mean by home -- Dreaming poetry -- The poetics of a preposition -- Hearing and overhearing the Psalms -- On A child's garden of verses -- My poetic generation -- Discovering Wallace Stevens -- O heavy verse! The shopwork of the workshops -- Whitman's difficult availability -- Arduous fullness : on Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The poetry of nonsense : Carroll's quest romance -- A poem lost and found : Jean Ingelow's successful "failure" -- Meredith's poetry -- "Far space and long antiquity" : Trumbull Stickney's autumns -- Spoon River anthology : a late appreciation -- Marianne Moore's verse -- Modes and ranges of a long dawn : Robert Penn Warren's poetry -- Elizabeth Bishop's mappings of life -- May Swenson's massive panoply -- The scarred most sacred : some remarks on Geoffrey Hill.
Local noteLittle-312302--305131015472W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97010041
ISBN0231108966
ISBN0231108974 (pbk)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PN1136 .H58 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold