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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... Nature is glad , are obliged to " breathe fixed tranquillity . " I am prepared to be persuaded of the goodness of all Nature , or of all things , but I would like to see some struggle toward that conclusion , some admission of 2 THE ...
... Nature is glad , are obliged to " breathe fixed tranquillity . " I am prepared to be persuaded of the goodness of all Nature , or of all things , but I would like to see some struggle toward that conclusion , some admission of 2 THE ...
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... nature , the reader must absorb a Latin footnote and a Greek pun . I have already noted elsewhere that in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " Poe uses the French phrase au troisième as one indication that Dupin's fourth - floor apartment ...
... nature , the reader must absorb a Latin footnote and a Greek pun . I have already noted elsewhere that in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " Poe uses the French phrase au troisième as one indication that Dupin's fourth - floor apartment ...
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... nature is not found ; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced , all rays return ; Evil will bless , and ice will burn . Of American writers , it is Poe who most challenges the reader not only to read him but also to solve him ...
... nature is not found ; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced , all rays return ; Evil will bless , and ice will burn . Of American writers , it is Poe who most challenges the reader not only to read him but also to solve him ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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