Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Meredith, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810150719 ISBN 13: 9780810150713

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1997

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A contemporary of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, Meredith was known from the beginning of his career as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. From his early, deeply personal poems to the later, less formal poems concerned with tolerance, civility, and shared values, Meredith's craft is marked by a thoughtfulness not often seen in poets of his, or successive, generations. He is the master of the poem that seems colloquial at first glance, but is in fact deliberately voiced, measured out, and shaped. His is a voice of unequaled honesty and clarity.

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William Morris Meredith, Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.

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Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for Poetry

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810150719
• ISBN 13: 9780810150713
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 231
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