The work of poetry
"Writing as both a poet and teacher, John Hollander sets out to discover the nature of poetry in twenty-three chapters, surveying an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson and covering such issues as poetic originality and the subtle power of poetic language to question and bear witness."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
9780231108966, 9780231108973, 0231108966, 0231108974
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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