| Description |
xiv, 377 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [375]-377. |
| Contents |
Ford Madox Ford -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- John Crowe Ransom -- William Carlos Williams -- T.S. Eliot -- I.A. Richards -- Visiting the Tates -- Yvor Winters -- Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons -- Auden at Sixty -- Elizabeth Bishop's North and south -- Stanley Kunitz's "Father and son" -- Randall Jarrell -- Dylan Thomas -- John Berryman -- Andrei Voznesensky -- Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- Art and evil -- The iliad -- Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Hawthorne's Pegasus -- On The Gettysburg address -- Hopkins's Sanctity -- English metrics -- Poets and the theater -- New England and further -- Epics -- On "Skunk hour" -- On translating Phèdre -- On Imitations -- An interview with Frederick Seidel -- Conversation with Ian Hamilton -- Antebellum Boston -- 91 Revere Street -- Near the unbalanced aquarium-- To President Roosevelt, 1943 -- To President Johnson, 1965. |
| Summary |
This vast collection of Robert Lowell's uniformly vigorous and well-written essays, which first appeared in 1987, was edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, his longtime editor and friend. Ranging chronologically from a student paper on the "Iliad that Lowell composed in 1935 to the unfinished essay, "New England and Further," on which he was working when he died in 1977, "Collected Prose is a telling and fascinating compendium of the ideas, arguments, and opinions of one of modernity's most important poets. With many critical writings and book reviews concerning all manner of poets old and new (from Vergil and Ovid to Frost and Stevens, from Hopkins and "Epics" to Bishop and Plath) as well as recently discovered autobiograpical writings, two extended interviews, and learned yet approachable musings on everything from the Gettyburg Address to the art and craft of translation, this prose ominbus is must-reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Giroux, Robert.
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Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Added Title |
Prose works. Selections
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| ISBN |
0374126259 |
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9780374126254 |
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