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" The work of poetry / "
John Hollander.
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BL
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980560
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b734930
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| Main Entry
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Hollander, John.
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The work of poetry /\ John Hollander.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©1997.
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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
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0231500505
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: 9780231500500
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and-feeling-at-home" in his or her work and the parallels between dreams and poetry. Next, "Poetic Experiences" examines the relationship between the poems and the individual, whether a poet or a reader of poetry, through such writings as "Hearing and Overhearing the Psalms," recounting Hollander's poetic childhood, and "My Poetic Generation." The final chapters, "The Work of Poets," deal with the poets themselves, and it is here that Hollander gives insightful readings of the works of Whitman, Robert Penn Warren, and others. Readers who have struggled with the verse of poets like John Ashbery will be grateful for Hollander's masterful readings. They will also discover the enchantment this visionary poet can create from a seemingly dry topic, like the preposition "of," and the clarity he imparts to such contested and ambiguous topics as originality. Serious admirers and students of verse who seek to comprehend its subtleties will find The Work of Poetry a rich and moving source of wisdom.
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Poetics.
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Poetry-- History and criticism.
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Poésie-- Histoire et critique.
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Poétique.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Poetry.
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Poetics.
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Poetry.
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Gedichten.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.1
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PN1136.H58 1997eb
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17.86bcl
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