The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995Harcourt Brace, 1997 - Počet stran: 242 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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... 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 Yorker under the title " Little Exercise : 4 ...
... 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 Yorker under the title " Little Exercise : 4 ...
Strana 130
... less extravagant , resemble the dismissal passage of " L'Allegro " in that they are directed not against the moderate enjoyments of Milton's cheerful man , but against empty fool- ishness . The poems , in short , pretend to attack each ...
... less extravagant , resemble the dismissal passage of " L'Allegro " in that they are directed not against the moderate enjoyments of Milton's cheerful man , but against empty fool- ishness . The poems , in short , pretend to attack each ...
Strana 213
... less a transcendent being than a fullness which the poet , and mankind , are in process of achieving through human brotherhood . Thus the last lines of Grenstone read : I have been waiting long enough ... .. Impossible gods , good - by ...
... less a transcendent being than a fullness which the poet , and mankind , are in process of achieving through human brotherhood . Thus the last lines of Grenstone read : I have been waiting long enough ... .. Impossible gods , good - by ...
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Poe and the Art of Suggestion | 7 |
Longfellow | 26 |
The Persistence of Riddles | 32 |
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