| 20th Century Pleasures Contributor(s): Hass (Author) |
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ISBN: 088001539X ISBN-13: 9780880015394 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2023 Annotation: Winner of the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, this now classic collection of essays focuses on three often-overlooked elements of contemporary poetry: its depth of feeling and imagination; its high degree of often-concealed craft; and its connectedness with tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - History |
| Dewey: 809.104 |
| LCCN: 83016394 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.9" W x 9.24" (0.97 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters, Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others, in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998. |