| Description |
xvi, 471 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-464) and index. |
| Contents |
Call me Ishmael. |
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On Melville, Dostoevsky, Lawrence, and Pound. David young, David old -- The materials and weights of Herman Melville -- Equal, that is, to the real itself -- Dostoevsky and The possessed -- D. H. Lawrence and the high temptation of the mind -- The escaped cock -- This is Yeats speaking -- Grandpa, goodbye. |
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Human universe. Human universe -- Footnote to HU (lost in the shuffle) -- The gate and the center -- The resistance -- Cy Twombly -- Proprioception -- Place; & names -- "you can't use words-- ". |
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The present is prologue. "The present is prologue" -- Stocking cap -- Mr. Meyer -- The post office. |
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Poetry and poets. Projective verse -- Letter to Elaine Feinstein -- "On poets and poetry" -- Notes on language and theater -- Against wisdom as such -- Theocritus -- A foot is to kick with -- Quantity in verse, and Shakespeare's late plays -- Introduction to Robert Creeley -- Robert Creeley's For love : poems 1950-1960 -- Paterson, book V -- "Ed Sanders' language". |
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Space and time. Introduction to The Sutter-Marshall lease -- A bibliography on America for Ed Dorn -- Billy the Kid -- Brooks Adams' The new empire -- Captain John Smith -- Five foot four, but Smith was a giant -- The contours of American history -- The Vinland map review. |
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Other essays, notes, and reviews. Ernst Robert Curtius -- It was. But it ain't. -- Homer and Bible -- Bill Snow -- A house built by Capt. John Somes 1763 -- The advantage of literacy is that words can be on the page -- Review of Eric A. Havelock's Preface to Plato -- A further note on the critical advantages of Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato -- Statement for the Cambridge magazine -- A comprehension (a measure, that -- "Clear shining water," De Vries says -- What's back there -- The animate versus the mechanical, and thought -- Continuing attempt to pull the taffy off the roof of the mouth. |
| Subject |
Poetics.
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Poetics -- Study and teaching.
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| Added Author |
Allen, Donald, 1912-2004.
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Friedlander, Benjamin, 1959-
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Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
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| Added Title |
Prose works. Selections
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| ISBN |
0520203194 |
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9780520203198 |
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0520208730 paperback |
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9780520208735 paperback |
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