A Book of Common Praise - Softcover

Boyers, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931337039 ISBN 13: 9781931337038

Publisher: Ausable Press, 2002

Synopsis

Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by such literary giants as Harold Bloom and John Bayley.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Boyers is Editor of the quarterly Salmagundi, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters at Skidmore College, and Director of the New York State Writers' Institute. He writes regularly on contemporary arts and culture for The New Republic, and his essays on politics and culture are widely published. He lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Review:

"This is a book for writers, readers, and teachers, for the literary critic and the biographer and historian." -- NewPages.com

I find him most stimulating and original and challenging to my own assumptions. -- Harold Bloom, 2002

Shrewd and sensible in his judgements, he reminds me of C.S. Lewis and Randall Jarrell. -- John Bayley, 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Ausable Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931337039
• ISBN 13: 9781931337038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280