The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226290549 ISBN 13: 9780226290546

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here—Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens—as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form."—Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review

About this title

About the Author:

Reginald Gibbons is a Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226290549
• ISBN 13: 9780226290546
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319
• Editor: Gibbons Reginald