| The Work of Poetry Contributor(s): Hollander, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231108974 ISBN-13: 9780231108973 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $35.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: "In some two dozen essays, the distinguished poet and Yale English professor (John) Hollander explores poetry's 'peculiarities, strangeness, ambiguities.' . . . Hollander's criticism is rigorous, idiosyncratic, and often bracingly contrarian, the product of an acute poetic imagination and intelligence".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.02" W x 9.01" (0.98 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous and uncompromising, Hollander champions the enduring force of poetry against the incursion of fashionable writing. This is an elegant, uncompromising affirmation of the extraordinary powers of poetic imagination from a poet whose poems have been hailed by J.D. McClatchy as "ways of thinking on paper." |