| Description |
x, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Grace dissolved in place: a reading of Ash Wednesday / Vereen Bell -- Poetry of the Desert War: British poets in Egypt 1940-45 / Bernard Bergonzi -- Three hard women: HD, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy / Thom Gunn -- Ezra Pound in Paris / Robert Von Hallberg -- "Necessary murder": the Auden circle and the Spanish Civil War / George Mills Harper -- "Or, solitude": a reading / Seamus Heaney -- A shared humanity: "In the stopping train" and "The Whitsun weddings" / Mark Jarman -- Eating your words: Dante as modernist / Gabriel Josipovici -- Four late poems of Lorine Niedecker / James Kilroy -- On ambiguity, modernism, and sacred texts / Laurence Lerner -- Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and yeats / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Pound and Yeats: the poetics of friendship / William Pratt -- Bards, boardrooms, and blackboards: John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, and the academicization of poetry / Claude Rawson -- Stendhal's mirror and Yeats's looking-glass: a reconsideration of The tower / C.K. Stead -- Some presence on the scene: a vista of postwar poetry / Charles Tomlinson -- Donald Davie: self-portraits in verse / Helen Vendler. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Davie, Donald.
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| Added Author |
Davie, Donald.
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Bell, Vereen M., 1934-
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Lerner, Laurence.
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| ISBN |
0826512305: $29.95 (est.) |
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