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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... final picture — the man in the boat - is less excitingly descriptive than the rest . What jarred me into a better understanding was the fact - which I came upon just two days ago - that the poem was originally published in The New ...
... final picture — the man in the boat - is less excitingly descriptive than the rest . What jarred me into a better understanding was the fact - which I came upon just two days ago - that the poem was originally published in The New ...
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... final engulfment in the South Atlantic . " Neither fondness for my son , " his narrative begins , " nor piety toward my old father , nor the due love that should have comforted Penelope , could conquer in me the yearning to know the ...
... final engulfment in the South Atlantic . " Neither fondness for my son , " his narrative begins , " nor piety toward my old father , nor the due love that should have comforted Penelope , could conquer in me the yearning to know the ...
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... final effect of the poem's form is visual , or , as we would put it now , " concrete . " In a poem which sees so broadly and so deeply , and which looks across " field upon field , " there is a repeated impression of horizontality - an ...
... final effect of the poem's form is visual , or , as we would put it now , " concrete . " In a poem which sees so broadly and so deeply , and which looks across " field upon field , " there is a repeated impression of horizontality - an ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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