In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. The author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Williams, to the contents of recent magazines. He considers work by Ammons, Ashbery, ...
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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. The author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Williams, to the contents of recent magazines. He considers work by Ammons, Ashbery, Bogan, Ginsberg, Lowell, Merwin, O'Hara, and younger writers, offering judgments and enthusiasms from a viewpoint that is consistent but unstereotyped. Like his poetry, Robert Pinsky's criticism joins the traditional and the innovative in ways that are thoughtful and unmistakably his own. His book is a bold essay on the contemporary situation in poetry, on the dazzling achievements of modernism, and on the nature or "situation" of poetry itself.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 200 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Princeton Essays in Literature, 3. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 200 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Princeton Essays in Literature, 3. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Minor soil to dustwrapper, VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xi, 188 pp, Some light page-edge soil. Contents: Introduction: "Modern" & "Contemporary"; Examples; Voices: Preliminary; Lowell; Berryman; Hardy, Ransom, Berryman; The Romantic Persistance: "Romantic": "Ode to a Nightingale"; "Modern": "The Term"; " The Most of It"; and "The Snow Man"; Generalities; "Contemporary"; Conventions of Wonder: "Description": Bogan, O'Hara; "Description": Some Contemporaries; Wonder & Derangement: "Orchids", "Badger", and "Poppies in July"; The Discursive Aspect of Poetry: "Earnestness": Cunningham, Bidart; Ammons; McMichaels "Itinerary"; Poetic Dictions & Prose Virtues; Final Remarks.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Princeton University Press, 1978, First Printing, 8vo, 187 pages. Softcover edition in near fine condition.