The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its TraditionsPrinceton University Press, 1978 M10 21 - 187 pages In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
EXAMPLES | 6 |
VOICES | 13 |
II LOWELL | 16 |
III BERRYMAN | 23 |
IV HARDY RANSOM BERRYMAN | 29 |
THE ROMANTIC PERSISTENCE | 47 |
THE TERM THE MOST OF IT AND THE SNOW MAN | 61 |
SOME CONTEMPORARIES | 104 |
ORCHIDS BADGER AND POPPIES IN JULY | 118 |
THE DISCURSIVE ASPECT OF POETRY | 134 |
II AMMONS | 144 |
III McMICHAELS ITINERARY | 156 |
IV POETIC DICTIONS AND PROSE VIRTUES | 162 |
V FINAL REMARKS | 169 |
NOTES | 177 |
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The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions Robert Pinsky No preview available - 1976 |