The Motive for metaphor : essays on modern poetry in honor of Samuel French Morse / edited by Francis C. Blessington and Guy Rotella.

Other author/creatorMorse, Samuel French, 1916-1985.
Other author/creatorBlessington, Francis C., 1942-
Other author/creatorRotella, Guy L.
Other author/creatorWarren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 signer.
Other author/creatorEberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner.
Contents Remark for historians / Robert Penn Warren -- A late guest at the Stevens party / William Stafford -- A sense of the place / Samuel French Morse -- About Stevens' Comments on several poems / Frank Doggett ; Dorothy Emerson -- "Hepped on familty ties": Wallace Stevens in the 1940s / Peter Brazeau -- The incandescence of old age: Yeats and Stevens in their late poems / Robert Buttel -- Rain / Richard Eberhart -- "'Polished garlands' of agreeing difference": William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, an exchange / Bonnie Costello -- The subversive performer in Frost's "Snow" and "Out, out--" / John F. Sears -- "An old-type natural fouled-up guy": the conflicting voice in Philip Larkin / Francis C. Blessington -- Salvage / Howard Baker -- Poetry and progress, criticism and culmination: a cautionary tale / Roy Harvey Pearce -- Reasons for poetry and the reason for criticism / William Meredith -- Backtrack into the swamp / William Bronk -- "A certain doubleness": the poetry of Samuel French Morse -- From "Beach glass" ; A candle for Advent / Samuel French Morse.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy autographed on t.p. "Richard Eberhart" and "Robert Penn Warren." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Richard Eberhart, ALS to Margaret, 6/19/1983, signed "Dick"; Deborah Kops, Northeastern University Press, ALS to Richard Eberhart, undated, enclosing copy of The Motive for Metaphor. Stuart Wright Book Collection #45.20. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
References Wright, S. Richard Eberhart, A56
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
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