The Motive for metaphor : essays on modern poetry in honor of Samuel French Morse / edited by Francis C. Blessington and Guy Rotella.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1983. |
| Description | xv, 175 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Morse, Samuel French, 1916-1985. |
| Other author/creator | Blessington, Francis C., 1942- |
| Other author/creator | Rotella, Guy L. |
| Other author/creator | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 signer. |
| Other author/creator | Eberhart, 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 note | Joyner 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| References | Wright, S. Richard Eberhart, A56 |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| LCCN | 82022280 |
| ISBN | 0930350383 : |