"A Stanley Burnshaw Reader" brings together selections from the major works of poetry and prose that have distinguished Burnshaw as one of the most important voices in twentieth-century letters. Included are essays from Burnshaw's two pioneering critical works: "The Seamless Web," praised by the New York Times Book Review as "a defense of poetry that removes it from the realm of man's spiritual luxuries and places it preeminently among his instruments of survival," and "The Poem Itself," a book that deals with forty-five poets of the last century in an entirely novel way which, as Lionel...