Poetry and the World - Softcover

Pinsky, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088001217X ISBN 13: 9780880012171

Verlag: ECCO Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pinsky Robert

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"Robert Pinsky, who confesses in "Poetry and the World" to 'a kind of pitying Mistrust of literary criticism, ' nonetheless brings his distinguished credentials as a man of letters to bear on that double cosmos of his title. Readers will find instruction and delight richly mixed in his jargon-free analyses. The author's sensitivity, as a distinguished practicing poet, to poetry's social issues--not so much of subject matter as of audience--leads him to brilliant illuminations of idiom, tone and range of diction in (mostly) American poetry. Trust his literary introductions ... savor the fine precision of response that our modem critics tend, habitually and regrettably, to devalue."-- "The New York Times Book Review"

Reseña del editor

A collection of sharp, entertaining, and informative essays by poet Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World is a passionate inquiry into poetry's place in the modem world. Combining the arts of criticism and autobiography, Pinsky writes about poets as diverse as Walt VVhitman and Philip Freneau, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara, about a visit to Poland during the early days of Solidarity, and his own childhood in a seedy New Jersey resort town. The scope and diversity of these essays confirm Pinsky's stature as not only one of our best poets, but as a perceptive and engaging critic as well.

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• Verlag: ECCO Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 088001217X
• ISBN 13: 9780880012171
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208