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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... wish to conclude by men- tioning a few details of Eleonora's deliberate texture . There is , for one thing , an admirably subtle use of light and dark and shadow throughout the story . The " forever " of the Valley's first state is ...
... wish to conclude by men- tioning a few details of Eleonora's deliberate texture . There is , for one thing , an admirably subtle use of light and dark and shadow throughout the story . The " forever " of the Valley's first state is ...
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... wish to show as much as possible ; the whole family and its homestead , with the horse and wagon on display ; the grade- school class putting forward the potted plants they have tended ; the man who , torn between exhibiting his work ...
... wish to show as much as possible ; the whole family and its homestead , with the horse and wagon on display ; the grade- school class putting forward the potted plants they have tended ; the man who , torn between exhibiting his work ...
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... wish in such a book as Indian Earth , where a new subject matter and a fresh aes- thetic discover their appropriate and sustainable form . We have the impulse at its most trivial in Book of Lyrics , where poems selected from many ...
... wish in such a book as Indian Earth , where a new subject matter and a fresh aes- thetic discover their appropriate and sustainable form . We have the impulse at its most trivial in Book of Lyrics , where poems selected from many ...
Inhalt
Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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aesthetic American Annabel Lee answer anthology Arvin asked beauty begins Beloved Stranger bird Chapala Chinese Chinese poetry couplets D. H. Lawrence dark death dream Dupin Eleonora Elizabeth Bishop English enigma essay experience fact feel forever Grenstone Poems hear heart heaven Il Penseroso imaginative Indian Earth Israfel Jade Mountain John John Ciardi kind L'Allegro language Ligeia lines literary living Longfellow look lyric mean memory metaphor Milton's mind Misanthrope Molière Molière's narrator nature never once passion Penseroso plays pleasure Poe's poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry prose reader rhyme Richard Wilbur riddle RW Yes seems sense sheep Song sonnet sort soul sound speaks Spectra spirit stanza story sure Sylvia Symphosius Tartuffe Tell-Tale Heart tells Tennyson things thought tions translation trees Ulysses verse voice W. H. Auden Whitman winter Witter Bynner words writing wrote