Poet's Work 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art

Name: Poet's Work 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art
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ISBN: 9780226290546

ISBN-10: 0226290549

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Authors: Reginald Gibbons

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"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here--Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens--as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets:…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Origins: The Sources and Motives of PoetryCzeslaw Milosz, Ars Poetica?



Toward Explaining Heteronymy



The Word & Culture



Some Statements Federico Garcï¿½a Lorca


The Duende: Theory and Divertissement



Words Before a Reading



The Irrational Element in Poetry Renï¿½ Char


from The Formal Share



from Intentions (Imaginary Interview)



from A Poet's Journal



The Vocation of the Poet in the Modern World



What Is Not Poetry?



The Three Faces of Love



Poetry and Science Gï¿½nter Kunert


Why Write



The Specialization of Poetry



Practice: The Poet's



Poetry



from Notes on Poetry



A Poet's Notebook



General Aims and Theories



Poetic Manifesto William



Projective Verse and The



The Pleasures of Formal Poetry



Idiosyncrasy and Technique



The Woman at the Washington



Writing



Some Notes on Organic Form



Notes on Poetic Form Seamus Heaney


Feelings into Words



The Real Work (Excerpts from an Interview) A Very Selective Reading


List Notes on the Poets and Selections