Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Gluck, Jesse Zuba illuminates the...

The letters in this book, first published in 1953, throw light on the literary scene at a time in which William Butler Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore regularly corresponded. In the early days of their friendship Yeats and Sturge Moore often saw each other in London where they both played an active part in the literary and artistic scene. When Yeats later lived chiefly in Ireland and Sturge Moore spent much of his time in the country and abroad they met less often but kept in touch by letter. Many of these letters, and therefore a record of their friendship, has been preserved and presented...

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats s achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement. To this end both the poems and plays have been examined and some of Yeats s critical ideas have been briefly discussed. Professor Rajan s study provides a compact introduction to Yeats s work, and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of literature. "

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats s last years, that poetry which reached and held to the intensity which he had striven for all his life. Vivienne Koch explores the ways in which the great but troubled poems derive their energy from suffering, and examines thirteen of his last poems in detail, each with a slightly different focus. This title will be of interest to students of literature. "

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