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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... sure , if so thoroughly skeptical a man may be said to have been sure of anything . John's raging skepticism had two aspects . One was an anger at God for being no better than a possibility ; he felt cheated of the repose of certainty ...
... sure , if so thoroughly skeptical a man may be said to have been sure of anything . John's raging skepticism had two aspects . One was an anger at God for being no better than a possibility ; he felt cheated of the repose of certainty ...
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... sure this is clear . What I'm trying to say is that perhaps there isn't finally a knowledge of a language satisfactory enough to any translator so that he can always feel certain that he knows the right thing to know . RW I'm sure ...
... sure this is clear . What I'm trying to say is that perhaps there isn't finally a knowledge of a language satisfactory enough to any translator so that he can always feel certain that he knows the right thing to know . RW I'm sure ...
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... sure , conspicuously present in the properties of the poems : in the roofs of Nankow , in temples , in cherry blos- soms , in jade . And if the poems ' free forms and surprising im- ages are a strange legacy from Spectra , one must ...
... sure , conspicuously present in the properties of the poems : in the roofs of Nankow , in temples , in cherry blos- soms , in jade . And if the poems ' free forms and surprising im- ages are a strange legacy from Spectra , one must ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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