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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... later , in England , there was a similar highbrow craze , and the chief figure in this English " riddlemania " was Jonathan Swift . Swift's riddles are elegant and often delightful . Consider a The Persistence of Riddles 37.
... later , in England , there was a similar highbrow craze , and the chief figure in this English " riddlemania " was Jonathan Swift . Swift's riddles are elegant and often delightful . Consider a The Persistence of Riddles 37.
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... figure , strange but not untrue , in which the idea of “ nothing ” is dismissed ; the transformation of the black mist into a rain- bow ; the perching of the catbird on a mock - orange spray ; the vitrification of a river , beginning ...
... figure , strange but not untrue , in which the idea of “ nothing ” is dismissed ; the transformation of the black mist into a rain- bow ; the perching of the catbird on a mock - orange spray ; the vitrification of a river , beginning ...
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... figure - a cowboy , I think — on the road which led past the gate of the walled vegetable garden and rounded the manure - house behind the barn . The figure gestured to the pine grove across the gar- den , and to a range of hazy blue ...
... figure - a cowboy , I think — on the road which led past the gate of the walled vegetable garden and rounded the manure - house behind the barn . The figure gestured to the pine grove across the gar- den , and to a range of hazy blue ...
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Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
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