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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... poet's role as Longfellow saw it and challenges us to appreciate his successes in now disused poetic genera . A reviewer cannot comment in detail on commentaries , but Mr. Arvin is to be praised for not misapplying our prevalent ...
... poet's role as Longfellow saw it and challenges us to appreciate his successes in now disused poetic genera . A reviewer cannot comment in detail on commentaries , but Mr. Arvin is to be praised for not misapplying our prevalent ...
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... poet's presence : it focuses the poem not on “ I ” but on the sheep , and it presents the poet not as a sensibility but as a mere locus or vantage point . A final effect of that line , of course , is to convey a sense of a fixed scene ...
... poet's presence : it focuses the poem not on “ I ” but on the sheep , and it presents the poet not as a sensibility but as a mere locus or vantage point . A final effect of that line , of course , is to convey a sense of a fixed scene ...
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... poet's mind partakes of the growing bleakness of the winter world , and the unreminded heart forgets that " green mo- tions " of new life underlie the snow . If Wallace Stevens's famous poem " The Snow Man " tells how , by attunement to ...
... poet's mind partakes of the growing bleakness of the winter world , and the unreminded heart forgets that " green mo- tions " of new life underlie the snow . If Wallace Stevens's famous poem " The Snow Man " tells how , by attunement to ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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