The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995Harcourt Brace, 1997 - 242 Seiten The Catbird's Song is a selection of prose pieces, on a variety of topics, by one of the most distinguished poets and translators of our times, Richard Wilbur. These lectures, letters, reviews, addresses, prefaces, and interviews-what Wilbur calls the "prose by-products of a poet's life"-not only reveal the ideas and concerns that inform his remarkable oeuvre but also offer fresh takes on the works and lives of poets we thought we knew, poets we ought to know, and much more. Here, then, are his appreciations of Poe, Milton, Tennyson, and Longfellow; paeans to his contemporaries Elizabeth Bishop, Mae Swenson, and John Ciardi; an introduction to the work of the neglected poet Witter Bynner; his comments on some of his own poems; and thoughts on the art of translation. Throughout all, Wilbur's voice resonates with clarity, reason, and authority. |
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... English ecclesiastics Aldhelm and Tatwine , in the seventh and eighth centuries . Out of the same English period , and preserved in the famous Exeter Book , came ninety - odd anonymous riddles in the Anglo- Saxon tongue . Many of these ...
... English ecclesiastics Aldhelm and Tatwine , in the seventh and eighth centuries . Out of the same English period , and preserved in the famous Exeter Book , came ninety - odd anonymous riddles in the Anglo- Saxon tongue . Many of these ...
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... English , the English of Robert Louis Stevenson is more central than it is for me , say . However good his English is , it's slightly odd — it's connected with , cen- tered in , specific literary enjoyments of his past . My knowledge of ...
... English , the English of Robert Louis Stevenson is more central than it is for me , say . However good his English is , it's slightly odd — it's connected with , cen- tered in , specific literary enjoyments of his past . My knowledge of ...
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... English words the thing I feel — the thing that is unmistakably to be found in the work of the greater Chinese poets . English and American poetry seem to me child's - play compared with the severe beauty of the Chinese - the abstention ...
... English words the thing I feel — the thing that is unmistakably to be found in the work of the greater Chinese poets . English and American poetry seem to me child's - play compared with the severe beauty of the Chinese - the abstention ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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